{"id":317591,"date":"2026-06-24T01:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317591\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T01:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:23:20","slug":"dog-in-trouble-turns-out-cape-coral-firefighters-saved-a-coyote-pup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317591\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog in trouble? Turns out Cape Coral firefighters saved a coyote pup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Firefighters in Florida never know who (or what) they will be called to rescue on a given day during their shift. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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&#8217;s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CapeCoralFD\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When firefighters responded, they said the animal swam from shore to shore as they tried to rescue it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crews said a local woman, Denae Judd, using her kayak, offered to help monitor the animal&#8217;s location. She pointed out to the crews that it had crawled under a dock. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Firefighters entered the water and rescued \u2014 what turned out to be \u2014 an exhausted coyote pup from the lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The agency said the tired animal wasn&#8217;t fit to be released back into the wild, so they took it to a local veterinary care center. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The center was working to coordinate moving it to the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife, Inc., for rehabilitation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The woman on her kayak who helped firefighters in this &#8220;unique situation&#8221; was presented with a Community Recognition Coin for her generous efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The fire department later learned that another neighbor, named Brian, was the one who originally saw the coyote fall into the lake. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;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,&#8221; the agency said on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They also presented Brian with a coin as well for his service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters in Florida never know who (or what) they will be called to rescue on a given day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-317591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317591","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=317591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}