{"id":884538,"date":"2026-10-16T16:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884538\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:34:18","slug":"mesa-firefighters-swoop-in-to-rescue-owl-tangled-in-fishing-line-on-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884538\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesa firefighters swoop in to rescue owl tangled in fishing line on trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">MESA, AZ (AZFamily) \u2014 A routine run in Mesa became a rescue mission when a jogger looked up and saw feathers in distress Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">It started when the jogger spotted an owl dangling by one wing from a power pole along a walking trail, tangled in discarded fishing line, according to Mesa Fire and Medical. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Firefighters with Engine 201 teamed up with Salt River Project crews, who cut the line and carefully lowered the alert bird to the ground. Crews then wrapped it in a blanket to keep it calm until SRP\u2019s avian protection specialist arrived to take it in for care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Fire officials thanked the jogger for speaking up for the owl and reminded everyone to properly dispose of fishing line, which can entangle birds and other wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Those who see an animal in distress near power lines are asked not to approach it and to call 911. For a sick, injured or orphaned animal in or around SRP facilities, call (602) 236-BIRD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MESA, AZ (AZFamily) \u2014 A routine run in Mesa became a rescue mission when a jogger looked up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[20330,4958,371260,5723,371258,371261,371259,19156,371262,79,201],"class_list":["post-884538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-arizona-news","tag-azfamily","tag-engine-201","tag-firefighters","tag-mesa-fire-department","tag-mesa-police","tag-mesa-police-department","tag-phoenix-news","tag-salt-river-project","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884538","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=884538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}