{"id":463836,"date":"2026-02-12T08:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/463836\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:33:07","slug":"have-you-seen-this-tortoise-narrowly-escapes-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/463836\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Seen This? Tortoise narrowly escapes blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FULLERTON, Calif. \u2014 The coolest movie characters are always the ones who walk away from a burning building without looking back.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you can picture many a superhero, international spy or evil villain casually sauntering away from a blaze. Well, now Leo the Tortoise can join the ranks of the effortless renegades.<\/p>\n<p>Leo narrowly escaped a shed fire that erupted in her enclosure after a heat lamp malfunctioned. While tortoises are typically known for being slow, video from her owner shows Leo sprinting to safety,<\/p>\n<p class=\"ksl-article-content\">\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DUjgBHPjsfk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>, Leo&#8217;s owner joked that Leo went into &#8220;sports mode&#8221; to escape the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;d look as cool or calm if my house just caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>Have You Seen This? <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FULLERTON, Calif. \u2014 The coolest movie characters are always the ones who walk away from a burning building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,1302,3811,3812,3103,134,3729,3,3813,3814,79,99,1505,2987,3324,2986,201],"class_list":["post-463836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-homes","tag-humor","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-science","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463836","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=463836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}