Oakland Firefighters Gave a Smoke-Choked Pigeon Oxygen — and 11 Million People Lost It
It walked right up to the fire engine, wheezing from the smoke, and the crew of Engine 29 cupped a tiny mask over the pigeon's beak. The 15-second clip of what happened next has more views than most Oakland stories get in a year — and the tiny mask has a backstory the video never mentions.
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