{"id":108627,"date":"2025-01-23T12:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/beloved-family-tortoise-found-safe-after-la-fires\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T12:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:03:45","slug":"beloved-family-tortoise-found-safe-after-la-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/beloved-family-tortoise-found-safe-after-la-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved family tortoise found safe after LA fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-23\/SDSSInsta_12325_RockyTortoise.jpg\" alt><figcaption>In this screen grab from a video released by the San Dimas Sheriff&#8217;s Station, a tortoise was sucessfully rescued after the owner&#8217;s home was destroyed by fire. Via San Dimas Sheriff&#8217;s Station\/Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(LOS ANGELES) &#8212; A beloved pet tortoise has been found safe in the wake of California wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue occurred after the family&#8217;s Altadena home was destroyed in the Eaton Fire, according to the San Dimas Sheriff&#8217;s Station.<\/p>\n<p>In a video the station shared Saturday to Instagram, a deputy was seen bringing the 100-pound tortoise, Rocky, to safety.<\/p>\n<p>Rocky was found in a hole in the family&#8217;s backyard, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The family can be heard cheering and celebrating as a deputy carried Rocky over to them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yay! Rocky&#8217;s home!&#8221; a woman can be heard saying in the video.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News has reached out to Rocky&#8217;s family for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this screen grab from a video released by the San Dimas Sheriff&#8217;s Station, a tortoise was sucessfully rescued after the owner&#8217;s home was destroyed by fire. Via San Dimas Sheriff&#8217;s Station\/Instagram (LOS ANGELES) &#8212; A beloved pet tortoise has been found safe in the wake of California wildfires. The<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/beloved-family-tortoise-found-safe-after-la-fires\/\">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\/108627"}],"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=108627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}