{"id":157798,"date":"2026-02-16T23:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157798\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:47:12","slug":"dog-rescued-from-busy-i-95-after-owner-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157798\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog rescued from busy I-95 after owner crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A good Samaritan who rescued a lost dog off Interstate 95 is now in the process of reuniting him with his owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brian Filous didn\u2019t have a doubt in his mind that he had to rescue the lost dog named Duke when he saw it running around during a big traffic jam on Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m a dog person,\u201d he said. \u201cI think anybody that owns dogs would\u2019ve (done this).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The traffic was due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/15\/multi-vehicle-crash-closes-southbound-lanes-of-i-95-at-sunrise-boulevard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/15\/multi-vehicle-crash-closes-southbound-lanes-of-i-95-at-sunrise-boulevard\/\">a crash that happened in the southbound express lanes of I-95<\/a> just south of Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Three people were injured in the crash, one with life-threatening injuries, according to authorities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Filous brought Duke right into his truck and to his Lighthouse Point home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI didn\u2019t think much of it, traffic wasn\u2019t moving fast, and I thought, I\u2019ve got one chance to help this guy out,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Duke did not have a nametag and was not microchipped. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Monday, Filous learned Duke belongs to one of the drivers in the crash, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely remarkable that he\u2019s OK,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Filous said he plans to bring Duke to the veteran\u2019s caretaker later this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe dog will be taken care of and he\u2019s going back to a good home that he\u2019s familiar with,\u201d he said. \u201cWe just wish the best recovery for the gentleman involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A good Samaritan who rescued a lost dog off Interstate 95 is now in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-157798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}