{"id":390117,"date":"2026-09-04T08:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390117\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:36:11","slug":"from-drain-to-domain-rescued-jacksonville-kitten-finds-a-forever-home-on-the-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390117\/","title":{"rendered":"From drain to domain: rescued Jacksonville kitten finds a forever home on the spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 A kitten in Jacksonville is safe after firefighters pulled off a purr-fect rescue from a storm drain.<\/p>\n<p>The Jacksonville Fire Department said crews were called to New Bridge Street Wednesday night after someone reported a kitten stuck inside the drainage system.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters said the kitten made the rescue a little tricky by running farther into the drains when crews arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Several manhole covers had to be removed as firefighters worked to track down the kitten.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, crews were able to safely rescue the animal.<\/p>\n<p>The story also came with a happy ending. According to the fire department, one of the women at the scene decided to keep the kitten.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s safe to say this little cat landed on its feet \u2014 and found a new home in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 A kitten in Jacksonville is safe after firefighters pulled off a purr-fect rescue from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-390117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390117","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=390117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}