{"id":318033,"date":"2026-06-24T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318033\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:41:08","slug":"firefighters-good-samaritans-rescue-coyote-pup-from-florida-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318033\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters, Good Samaritans rescue coyote pup from Florida lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 24, 2026 at 8:21 AM<\/p>\n<p>First responders responded to Britannia Lake in Cape Coral Monday morning after residents in the area spotted what they thought was a dog struggling to stay afloat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CAPE CORAL, Fla.  \u2014 First responders responded to Britannia Lake in Cape Coral Monday morning after residents in the area spotted what they thought was a dog struggling to stay afloat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">However, when firefighters arrived, they realized the animal was actually a coyote pup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Firefighters said one neighbor, Brian, jumped into the water when he saw the coyote fall into the lake as others called 911. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Denae Judd, who was kayaking, then helped guide firefighters to the coyote\u2019s location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cShe monitored its location and let the crew know it had crawled up under a dock,\u201d the Cape Coral Fire Department posted on social media. \u201cFirefighters entered the water and were able to extract what turned out to be a coyote pup from the space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The little guy was eventually pulled out of the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was taken to a veterinarian to get checked out before being moved to a wildlife rehab center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 24, 2026 at 8:21 AM First responders responded to Britannia Lake in Cape Coral Monday morning after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-318033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318033","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=318033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}