{"id":942056,"date":"2026-07-17T22:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/942056\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:58:22","slug":"the-pigeon-came-up-to-them-seeking-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/942056\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Pigeon Came Up to Them Seeking Help&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Images of Oakland firefighters helping out a struggling pigeon seem to have charmed the internet. The odd moment took place after firefighters responded to a vehicle fire, reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/2026\/07\/15\/oakland-fire-department-pigeon-rescue-viral-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oaklandside<\/a>. When the fire was out, firefighters spotted a pigeon that appeared to be suffering from smoke inhalation. &#8220;The crew reported the pigeon came up to them seeking help,&#8221; said Oakland Firefighters Local 55 union in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DazTE7cpRz6\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media post<\/a>. Firefighters then managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/twHCrAmTY1w\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">give the bird oxygen<\/a> via a tank and mask, and it flew off after the treatment. Video of the moment has racked up well over a million views as of Friday, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/oakland-firefighters-oxygen-pigeon\/4115158\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC Bay Area<\/a>.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Images of Oakland firefighters helping out a struggling pigeon seem to have charmed the internet. The odd&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":942057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[276,6526,24197,52859,311272,159,195025,67,132,34157,68,837],"class_list":["post-942056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-california","tag-firefighters","tag-oakland","tag-oxygen","tag-pigeon","tag-science","tag-strange-stuff","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-uplifting-news","tag-us","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942056","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=942056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}