{"id":370820,"date":"2026-08-13T23:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370820\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:48:11","slug":"firefighters-rescue-dog-trapped-in-marion-county-sinkhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370820\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters rescue dog trapped in Marion County sinkhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wofl-marion-county-puppy-rescued2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">MARION COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; Firefighters rescued a dog named Lada after she became trapped in a sinkhole at a home in northwest Marion County.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Crews responded shortly before noon Wednesday and found the female dog stuck in a sinkhole about 4 feet wide and several feet deep, according to firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wofl-marion-county-puppy-rescued1.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The rescue took about 45 minutes, and crews safely reunited Lada with her owners.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wofl-marion-county-puppy-rescued3.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No people or pets were injured during the rescue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It is unclear how the dog got loose and became trapped in the sinkhole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written based on information shared by the Marion County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/marion-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marion County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.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":"article MARION COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; Firefighters rescued a dog named Lada after she became trapped in a sinkhole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47,3833,115,139,141,140,8713,628],"class_list":["post-370820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-fl","tag-marion-county","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-pets-animals","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370820","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=370820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}