{"id":317265,"date":"2026-06-23T20:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317265\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T20:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:41:06","slug":"crews-were-called-to-rescue-a-dog-it-was-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317265\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews were called to rescue a dog. It was something else."},"content":{"rendered":"

CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 Firefighters in Florida never know who (or what) they will be called to rescue on a given day during their shift. <\/p>\n

Crews in Cape Coral responded to a call of a dog in a canal in Britannia Lake on Monday morning, according to a post on the agency’s Facebook page.<\/a><\/p>\n

When firefighters responded, they said the animal swam from shore to shore as they tried to rescue it. <\/p>\n

Crews said a local woman, Denae Judd, using her kayak, offered to help monitor the animal’s location. She pointed out to the crews that it had crawled under a dock. <\/p>\n

Firefighters entered the water and rescued \u2014 what turned out to be \u2014 an exhausted coyote pup from the lake.<\/p>\n

The agency said the tired animal wasn’t fit to be released back into the wild, so they took it to a local veterinary care center. <\/p>\n

The center was working to coordinate moving it to the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife, Inc., for rehabilitation. <\/p>\n

The woman on her kayak who helped firefighters in this “unique situation” was presented with a Community Recognition Coin for her generous efforts.<\/p>\n

The fire department later learned that another neighbor, named Brian, was the one who originally saw the coyote fall into the lake. <\/p>\n

“He even jumped in after to try to get it! His efforts caught the attention of other neighbors who called 9-1-1 and Denae,” the agency said on Facebook.<\/p>\n

They also presented Brian with a coin as well for his service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 Firefighters in Florida never know who (or what) they will be called to rescue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[131326,209,131843,211,210,131844,28],"class_list":["post-317265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-britannia-lake","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-fire-rescue","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-coyote-rescued","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317265","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=317265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}