{"id":80,"date":"2005-05-14T11:07:24","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T15:07:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"firefighters_rescue_woman_from_brink_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/14\/firefighters_rescue_woman_from_brink_of\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters rescue woman from brink of Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/americas\/02\/24\/falls.rescue\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> (reproduced below):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/media\/story.rescue_01.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"The woman is lifted on a rescue basket to safety\" title=\"The woman is lifted on a rescue basket to safety.\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>The woman is lifted on a rescue basket to safety.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Firefighters rescue woman from brink of Niagara Falls<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, February 25, 2004 Posted: 10:21 AM EST (1521 GMT)<\/p>\n<p>(CNN) &#8212; Only 100 feet from the brink of Niagara Falls, rescue teams late Monday afternoon kept a woman from plunging over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls and a likely death.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 4:30 p.m., Niagara Parks Police were told of a woman floating in the Niagara River, several hundred yards from the falls, a police statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman grabbed onto a throw-rope police tossed down the icy banks of the river.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Hall of the Niagara Falls, Ontario, Fire Department was the first rescue worker to reach her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the way down, I just kept saying: &#8216;I&#8217;m coming. I&#8217;m coming. Just hang on, hang on,'&#8221; Hall said.<\/p>\n<p>Within an hour, the woman was lifted on a rescue basket to safety, trembling from the cold and slipping in and out of consciousness from hypothermia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no foul play suspected in relation to this incident and it appears that the fifty-year old woman entered the river of her own free will,&#8221; the police statement said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN (reproduced below): The woman is lifted on a rescue basket to safety. Firefighters rescue woman from brink of Niagara Falls Wednesday, February 25, 2004 Posted: 10:21 AM EST (1521 GMT) (CNN) &#8212; Only 100 feet from the brink of Niagara Falls, rescue teams late Monday afternoon kept a woman from plunging over the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/80","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}