{"id":450031,"date":"2026-09-01T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450031\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:26:10","slug":"watch-stuck-parrot-rescued-from-third-floor-balcony-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450031\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Stuck parrot rescued from third-floor balcony in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sept. 1 (UPI) — Firefighters and an animal control officer in San Francisco came to the rescue of a wild parrot that got its head stuck between panes of glass on a third-floor balcony.<\/p>\n

San Francisco Animal Care & Control said on social media<\/a> that Officer Mullen responded alongside the San Francisco Fire Department on Sunday when a parrot was spotted with its head stuck between two panes of glass on the balcony of an under-construction building.\n<\/p>\n

Firefighters went to the roof of a building and lowered a ladder to the balcony, where they were able to slide the bird upward to free its head.<\/p>\n

“They wrapped the bird in a towel and handed it off to Officer Mullen, who checked out the bird,” the post said. “Thankfully they were fine: their wings, legs and neck were all OK, so Officer Mullen released the bird.”\n<\/p>\n

The parrot made its way to a nearby tree to rest on a branch.\n<\/p>\n

“The parrot was very tired from struggling all day but looked healthy. Other parrots came around and were squawking joyfully in celebration,” officials wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 1 (UPI) — Firefighters and an animal control officer in San Francisco came to the rescue of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2113,7761,3554,101,103,102,104,106,105,7760],"class_list":["post-450031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}