{"id":323970,"date":"2026-06-29T23:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323970\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T23:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:23:17","slug":"cape-coral-fl-firefighters-called-to-rescue-dog-find-coyote-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323970\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral, FL, Firefighters Called to Rescue Dog Find Coyote Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 22, the Cape Coral Fire Department (CCFD) reported to a dog rescue in a canal in Britannia Lake, but the animal turned out to be a coyote.<\/p>\n

According to CBS News 12<\/a>, when firefighters attempted to rescue the animal, it swam from shore to shore. Eventually, the coyote crawled under a dock and bystander Denae Judd informed the firefighters of the location, leading to the rescue.<\/p>\n

“Firefighters entered the water and were able to extract what turned out to be a coyote pup from the space,” CCFD said in a statement<\/a>. “It was exhausted from its ventures and unable to be released.”<\/p>\n

Judd received a Community Recognition Coin from the CCFD for her \u201cassistance with this unique situation.”<\/p>\n

Photos and videos<\/a> shared by the CCFD showed a firefighter removing the coyote pup from a beam beneath the dock.<\/p>\n

Following the rescue, the animal was taken to a veterinary center, and they coordinated the coyote\u2019s safe transfer to the Clinic for Rehabilitation of Wildlife.<\/p>\n

The CCFD said that a neighbor near the rescue site, \u201coriginally saw the coyote fall in the lake\u201d and \u201cjumped in after to try to get it.\u201d This alerted others as to what was happening, leading to the 9-1-1 call.<\/p>\n

“We weren’t able to get a photo, but firefighters stopped by this afternoon to present him with a coin as well,” the CCFD said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On June 22, the Cape Coral Fire Department (CCFD) reported to a dog rescue in a canal in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-323970","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\/323970","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=323970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}