{"id":3809,"date":"2026-01-25T03:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=3809"},"modified":"2026-01-25T03:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:35:32","slug":"after-five-days-apart-man-finds-his-dog-following-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=3809","title":{"rendered":"After five days apart, man finds his dog following wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"295\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"17\">Fire and Fear<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"295\">Early on January 7, 2025, the Palisades Fire tore through California.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"295\">For Casey Colvin, the danger wasn\u2019t his home\u2014it was his dogs,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"295\">Oreo and Tika Tika Tika. Trapped at work, he biked through smoke and ash,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"295\">only to be stopped by emergency crews, unsure if his dogs were alive.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"297\" data-end=\"472\"><strong data-start=\"297\" data-end=\"323\">A Risk Beyond Protocol<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"297\" data-end=\"472\">Cal Fire battalion chief Brent Pascua entered a burning<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"297\" data-end=\"472\">home and rescued Tika Tika Tika.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"297\" data-end=\"472\">Oreo was missing, leaving Casey in agonizing uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"649\"><strong data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"495\">Five Days of Hope<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"649\">For nearly a week, Casey searched tirelessly.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"649\">Hope thinned until Oreo was finally spotted alive.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"649\">Casey called out, and Oreo ran straight into his arms.<\/p>\n<p><strong data-start=\"651\" data-end=\"677\">Grace in the Aftermath<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Casey later thanked Pascua, saying,<\/p>\n<p><strong data-start=\"716\" data-end=\"778\">\u201cIf you hadn\u2019t done that, my dogs wouldn\u2019t be here today.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pascua reflected that such moments give meaning to the risks<\/p>\n<p>firefighters take, highlighting resilience, compassion, and the human\u2013animal bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire and Fear Early on January 7, 2025, the Palisades Fire tore through California. For Casey Colvin, the danger wasn\u2019t his home\u2014it was his dogs, Oreo and Tika Tika Tika. Trapped at work, he biked through smoke and ash, only to be stopped by emergency crews, unsure if his dogs were alive. A Risk Beyond&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions\/3811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}