{"id":277965,"date":"2010-02-04T13:36:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a860b6c7970b"},"modified":"2010-02-04T13:35:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:35:29","slug":"l-a-river-dogs-rescuer-adjusts-to-sudden-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277965","title":{"rendered":"L.A. River dog’s rescuer adjusts to sudden spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spikey, the dog whose dramatic rescue made headlines last month, was recently reunited with his owner<\/a>. The dog’s life has apparently returned to normal — but what of his much-lauded rescuer, paramedic Joe St. Georges? Our colleague Carla Hall profiled St. George; here’s an excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"St<\/img><\/a> On computer screens in offices and TVs in airport terminals, people all over the country watched live on the stormy afternoon of Jan. 22 as [St. Georges] was lowered by cable from a helicopter to save the frantic animal<\/a> from the fast-moving L.A. River in Vernon.<\/p>\n

And they kept watching, transfixed, as dog and man were hoisted up, spinning horizontally over the gray water.<\/p>\n

St. Georges, who got a badly bitten thumb for his efforts, became an instant celebrity, appearing on the "Today" show and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and accepting the accolades of the animal-loving world.<\/p>\n

For saving the dog, now identified as Spikey from Maywood<\/a>, the 50-year-old firefighter paramedic has been barraged with hundreds of cards from well-wishers and lauded on a Facebook page<\/a> set up by his admirers.<\/p>\n

"You are proof that there are angels walking among us!" gushes one of the 5,353 fans of the page (as of press time) established to "thank LA’s dog-saving fire-fighter Joe St. Georges!"<\/p>\n

"I’m humbled, I’m amazed," said St. Georges of all the attention. "I don’t know what to make of it. It’s what we do."<\/p>\n

THERE’S MORE; READ THE REST<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photo: St. George (injured thumb and all) is interviewed after being honored by an animal welfare group Feb. 2. Credit: Barbara Davidson \/ Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spikey, the dog whose dramatic rescue made headlines last month, was recently reunited with his owner. The dog’s life has apparently returned to normal — but what of his much-lauded rescuer, paramedic Joe St. Georges? Our colleague Carla Hall profiled St. George; here’s an excerpt: On computer screens in offices and TVs in airport terminals, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}