{"id":16796,"date":"2014-08-19T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16796"},"modified":"2014-08-19T10:31:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:31:43","slug":"getting-to-the-bottom-of-gorge-rescues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/19\/getting-to-the-bottom-of-gorge-rescues\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to the bottom of gorge rescues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2014\/08\/13\/getting-to-the-bottom-of-gorge-rescues\">St Catharines Standard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s a sure sign of summer for Niagara\u2019s emergency workers.<\/p>\n<p>Calls for high-angle rescues of hikers or tourists come in just about every week. There were two in one day in St. Catharines during a recent weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Some are mundane \u2014 a lost hiker who needs some direction and help up a steep slope. Others are dramatic, such as the high-flying rescue in Niagara Falls in May where a Niagara Parks Police officer was suspended from a helicopter above the Niagara River while helping an injured man in the water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they are off trail, it\u2019s a naturally hazardous situation,\u201d said Niagara Parks Police Insp. Paul Forcier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the St Catharines Standard: It\u2019s a sure sign of summer for Niagara\u2019s emergency workers. Calls for high-angle rescues of hikers or tourists come in just about every week. There were two in one day in St. Catharines during a recent weekend. Some are mundane \u2014 a lost hiker who needs some direction and help&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[1652,9883,41,1791,144,9146,2121],"class_list":["post-16796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-gorge","tag-high-angle-rescue","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-parks-police","tag-niagara-river","tag-paul-forcier","tag-rescue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}