{"id":348888,"date":"2026-06-24T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348888\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:35:08","slug":"austin-fire-department-announces-death-of-retired-arson-k-9-smokey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348888\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Fire Department announces death of retired arson K-9, Smokey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 The Austin Fire Department is mourning the death of Smokey, a retired arson detection K-9 who died June 16 at the age of 14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/round-rock-police-arrest-man-six-minutes-after-stolen-vehicle-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Round Rock police arrest man six minutes after stolen vehicle report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smokey served the Austin community alongside his handler, retired Battalion Chief Randy Elmore. The department did not provide additional details about the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The Austin Fire Department extended its condolences to the Elmore family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Austin Fire Department is mourning the death of Smokey, a retired arson detection K-9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-348888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}