{"id":496618,"date":"2026-03-01T01:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496618\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:22:10","slug":"anchorage-firefighters-rescue-young-injured-eagle-dangling-in-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496618\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchorage firefighters rescue young injured eagle dangling in tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) &#8211; Anchorage firefighters helped rescue an injured juvenile bald eagle that was dangling from a tree late Friday afternoon, assisting a local wildlife rehabilitation group with equipment and manpower.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Crews used a ladder to reach the injured juvenile eagle and transport it for treatment\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/KTR5SGYS2FG67NPZZ2OJHM25LI.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" \/>Crews used a ladder to reach the injured juvenile eagle and transport it for treatment(Anchorage Fire Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Anchorage Fire Department said crews learned just after 4:30 p.m. that the young eagle was stuck and injured, and that the Bird Treatment &amp; Learning Center needed a ladder to reach it. Firefighters responded and, working with Bird TLC staff, freed the bird and transported it for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department noted the rescue was also a tribute to retired Anchorage Fire Department Battalion Chief Gary Bullock, whom it said loved Alaska\u2019s wild birds. Bullock served as a volunteer and board member of Bird TLC for more than 20 years, the department said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Crews used a ladder to reach the injured juvenile eagle and transport it for treatment\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ZJ43VEROPBGD7K234IAU4ZUH5M.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1225\" \/>Crews used a ladder to reach the injured juvenile eagle and transport it for treatment(Anchorage Fire Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error? Report it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskasnewssource.com\/2026\/02\/28\/anchorage-firefighters-rescue-young-injured-eagle-dangling-tree\/mailto:web@ktuu.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.alaskasnewssource.com\/2026\/02\/28\/anchorage-firefighters-rescue-young-injured-eagle-dangling-tree\/mailto:web@ktuu.com\">web@ktuu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KTUU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) &#8211; Anchorage firefighters helped rescue an injured juvenile bald eagle that was dangling from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[227040,227042,3292,227043,14891,227041,1920,227039,36859,3,20430,227044,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-496618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-afd","9":"tag-ak","10":"tag-alaska","11":"tag-alaska-news-source","12":"tag-anchorage","13":"tag-anchorage-fire","14":"tag-injured","15":"tag-injured-eagle","16":"tag-ktuu","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-rescue","19":"tag-saved-from-tree","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496618","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=496618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}