{"id":117949,"date":"2011-08-19T13:26:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T18:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=117949"},"modified":"2011-08-21T05:54:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T10:54:02","slug":"firefighters-rescue-llama-stuck-in-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=117949","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters Rescue Llama Stuck in Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=117950\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117950\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/08\/llama2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"llama2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-117950\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRED SPRINGS (AP) \u2014 Over the years East Texas firefighters have performed a wide variety of rescues. But, yesterday\u2019s had to be a first. Firefighters used their rescue skills to save a llama stuck in a muddy pond for at least a day. Red Springs volunteer firefighters freed the llama at midday Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Charles Wilson says a passer-by reported seeing the animal in water up to its neck. Wilson says the 250-pound llama apparently got stuck Thursday, a day when temperatures topped 100 degrees. Employees of the Caldwell Zoo in Tyler helped ease the llama&#8217;s feet from the bog, then the creature was pulled out. The owner took the weakened llama to a veterinarian. Wilson, who&#8217;s been a firefighter for 42 years, told The Associated Press that he&#8217;s saved horses and cattle, but this was his first llama rescue, and he feels good about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RED SPRINGS (AP) \u2014 Over the years East Texas firefighters have performed a wide variety of rescues. But, yesterday\u2019s had to be a first. Firefighters used their rescue skills to save a llama stuck in a muddy pond for at least a day. Red Springs volunteer firefighters freed the llama at midday Friday. Lt. Charles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=117949\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firefighters Rescue Llama Stuck in Pond<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 03:30:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117949"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118281,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117949\/revisions\/118281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}