{"id":447028,"date":"2025-12-14T18:57:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/447028\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T18:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:57:20","slug":"firefighters-police-officers-help-save-pup-stuck-in-tempe-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/447028\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters, police officers help save pup stuck in Tempe canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 What started as a desperate swim in a Tempe canal ended with teamwork, cheers, and one safe pup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">According to Tempe police, officers got a call earlier this week about a dog stuck in a canal. The dog seemed to be getting tired from swimming, so officers and Tempe Fire Medical Rescue all jumped in to help save the struggling pooch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">In the video, you can hear one first responder say, \u201cAw! Come on, baby!\u201d once they spot the distressed dog. A few moments later, more crews come to the rescue and begin work to pull the puppy out of the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">\u201cCome on, you can do it,\u201d the same officer is heard in the video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">\u201cThis rescue shows what teamwork looks like, police and fire working side by side to save a life,\u201d police said in the social video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Once out of the water, police took the pup to the vet to make sure the dog was OK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">\u201cOne safe dog, one happy ending, and a whole lot of heart behind the badges,\u201d Tempe police wrote on Facebook. Yes, indeed! <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily) \u2014 What started as a desperate swim in a Tempe canal ended with teamwork, cheers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":447029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,74785,1589,7183,57854,115894,205676,190406,205675,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,10639],"class_list":{"0":"post-447028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-azfamily","12":"tag-dog-rescue","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-news","15":"tag-pup","16":"tag-puppy","17":"tag-puppy-saved","18":"tag-tempe-canal","19":"tag-tempe-pd","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-water-rescue"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115719454426976971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}