{"id":279952,"date":"2025-11-08T20:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/279952\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T20:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:12:11","slug":"red-tailed-hawk-flies-into-home-through-bedroom-window-east-bay-firefighters-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/279952\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-tailed hawk flies into home through bedroom window, East Bay firefighters respond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters in Contra Costa County got an interesting call on Friday when a red-tailed hawk ended up inside a home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bird of prey flew in through the Rossmoor resident&#8217;s bedroom window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bird was captured by firefighters and eventually set free. It was able to fly away on its own and appeared uninjured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WALNUT CREEK, Calif. &#8211; Firefighters in the East Bay responded to a home on Friday after a resident called to report a red-tailed hawk had flown into her home through the bedroom window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/contra-costa-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Contra Costa County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Contra Costa County<\/a> Fire Protection District shared this tale on their Instagram page.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They said firefighters with Engine 4 were able to assist the Rossmoor resident after the bird of prey ended up inside the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several photos detail the bird&#8217;s ordeal. One shows the hawk perched upon a glass shower door with its talons sunken into a tericloth towel.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Photos courtesy Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b997f7995bcdf2310a62402b1cb6580d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photos courtesy Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another shows the moment of capture; two firefighters appear to have caught the bird in a blanket after cornering it in the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Photos courtesy Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/84d6a140db2faf34f72e4f66b6d853e6.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photos courtesy Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The hawk was set outside on the patio by the two firefighters where it was set free.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Photos courtesy Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a4882938da0b5bd1980f9a667d40398e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photos courtesy Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At first, the hawk appeared confused after ending up in unfamiliar territory.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Photos courtesy Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0db4375616e3170dc3948cc02ae44e3e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photos courtesy Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The last photo shows the bird perched up in a tree.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Photos courtesy Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b9f5e3ef4e38e309b19dc1aa4e90e410.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photos courtesy Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thankfully, officials said the bird was able to fly away on its own and did not appear to be injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Firefighters in Contra Costa County got an interesting call on Friday when a red-tailed hawk ended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[10833,148285,5723,148284,79,201],"class_list":["post-279952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-contra-costa-county","tag-fire-protection-district","tag-firefighters","tag-red-tailed-hawk","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}