{"id":7395,"date":"2009-10-09T11:30:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T15:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7395"},"modified":"2009-10-09T11:15:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T15:15:50","slug":"rescuers-talk-man-away-from-water-above-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/09\/rescuers-talk-man-away-from-water-above-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers talk man away from water above falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2096716\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man who waded into the water about 120 metres above the Horseshoe Falls was convinced to come back to shore by a Niagara Parks Police officer and city firefighters Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around noon-hour near Table Rock House, when a tour bus arrived at the usual stop on the south side of the building.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers disembarked the bus. But one man, a 35-year-old tourist, ran from his wife and toward the stone wall meant to keep people from getting too close to the falls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He ran at the retaining wall and vaulted himself over,&#8221; said parks police Insp. Paul Forcier.<\/p>\n<p>When firefighters and police arrived, they found him on the dangerous side of the wall, holding onto branches on shore to avoid being swept away.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighter Taylor Urquhart approached him, but the man moved further down river.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, he was about 50 feet from the brink of the falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A man who waded into the water about 120 metres above the Horseshoe Falls was convinced to come back to shore by a Niagara Parks Police officer and city firefighters Thursday. The incident occurred around noon-hour near Table Rock House, when a tour bus arrived at the usual stop on&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"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":[208,142,132,1377,2223],"class_list":["post-7395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-brink","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-niagara-parks","tag-retaining-wall","tag-tour-bus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395","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=7395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7396,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions\/7396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}