{"id":293148,"date":"2026-06-02T15:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293148\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:12:27","slug":"florida-owl-gets-stuck-between-tree-trunks-pasco-county-fire-rescue-crew-swoops-in-to-save-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293148\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida owl gets stuck between tree trunks, Pasco County Fire Rescue crew swoops in to save bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/n7rbahk54uqmog8g.jpg\" alt=\"Owl rescued from tree in Pasco County\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-2601878a=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/n7rbahk54uqmog8g.jpg\" alt=\"Owl rescued from tree in Pasco County\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-d69731cc=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. &#8211; Pasco County Fire Rescue saved a trapped owl after the bird became wedged tightly between two tree trunks.<\/p>\n<p>   Wesley Chapel animal rescue <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox13news.com\/news\/florida-owl-gets-stuck-between-tree-trunks-crews-swoops-safe-bird\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A Pasco County Fire Rescue crew responded to a call regarding an owl stuck between two tree trunks in the Lexington Oaks neighborhood of Wesley Chapel. Firefighters used a gentle approach to free the bird safely from the tight space.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The fire department released a statement noting their crews freed the animal without any lingering injuries. The department shared, &#8220;With gentle hands and a whole lot of heart, our firefighters were able to safely free the owl who quickly flew off unharmed, no worse for wear and hopefully a little wiser.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Pasco County emergency response <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox13news.com\/news\/florida-owl-gets-stuck-between-tree-trunks-crews-swoops-safe-bird\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It remains unknown how long the bird was trapped before someone spotted it and called for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was collected from Storyful and Pasco County Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. &#8211; Pasco County Fire Rescue saved a trapped owl after the bird became wedged tightly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,115,8713],"class_list":["post-293148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-pets-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293148","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=293148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}