{"id":211767,"date":"2026-06-05T18:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211767\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:16:06","slug":"firefighters-rescue-trapped-fawn-from-groundhog-hole-in-dickson-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211767\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters rescue trapped fawn from groundhog hole in Dickson City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DICKSON CITY, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Firefighters in Dickson City spent part of Thursday afternoon rescuing a young deer that became trapped beneath a large rock in a narrow groundhog hole.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Dickson City Fire Department, crews responded to an animal rescue call after a fawn was discovered stuck underground and unable to free itself.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters used specialized rescue techniques and worked alongside several partner agencies during the operation. Officials said the fawn was pinned beneath a large rock, making the rescue especially challenging.<\/p>\n<p>After a coordinated effort, firefighters successfully freed the animal from the hole.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Game Commission and Dickson City Department of Public Works assisted with the rescue. Once the fawn was extricated, it was turned over to a state game warden for evaluation and care.<\/p>\n<p>Fire department officials said the fawn had likely been trapped for an extended period of time, leaving its long-term survival uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are committed to caring for all lives, great and small,&#8221; the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DICKSON CITY, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Firefighters in Dickson City spent part of Thursday afternoon rescuing a young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-211767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}