{"id":108023,"date":"2024-11-30T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T18:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/firefighters-rescue-chihuahua-from-under-houston-bridge\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T18:03:38","slug":"firefighters-rescue-chihuahua-from-under-houston-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/firefighters-rescue-chihuahua-from-under-houston-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters rescue Chihuahua from under Houston bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-30\/HoustonBotanicGarden_113024_FireDeptRescure.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Houston Botanic Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(HOUSTON) &#8212; Teams of firefighters sprang into action in Texas on Friday when staff at the Houston Botanic Garden noticed a tiny Chihuahua was stuck underneath a pedestrian bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Photos posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/houstonbotanicgarden\/posts\/884073327257712\">Facebook<\/a> show the small dog sitting on one of the footings of the bridge, which spans the Sims Bayou channel.<\/p>\n<p>It took two Houston fire stations to help bring the Chihuahua safely back on land, with one crew member jumping in the water to bring the pup ashore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This Black Friday was one Chihuahua&#8217;s lucky day, thanks to our heroes at Houston Fire Department stations 29 and 42,&#8221; the Houston Botanic Garden wrote alongside several photos of the puppy rescue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We love knowing that everyone and everything in and around the Garden is in good hands with these trained community helpers on the job,&#8221; the institution added.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear who the dog&#8217;s owner is and how it ended up below the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News has reached out to the Houston Fire Department for a comment.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Botanic Garden (HOUSTON) &#8212; Teams of firefighters sprang into action in Texas on Friday when staff at the Houston Botanic Garden noticed a tiny Chihuahua was stuck underneath a pedestrian bridge. Photos posted to Facebook show the small dog sitting on one of the footings of the bridge, which<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/firefighters-rescue-chihuahua-from-under-houston-bridge\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}