{"id":15053,"date":"2017-04-17T16:35:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=15053"},"modified":"2017-04-17T16:35:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:35:52","slug":"video-columbus-fire-and-ems-rescues-teen-at-riverwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=15053","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Columbus Fire and EMS rescues teen at Riverwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtvm.com\/story\/35147217\/video-columbus-fire-and-ems-rescues-teen-at-riverwalk-officials-urge-public-of-water-safety\" target=\"_blank\">WTVM<\/a>) \u2013 Columbus Fire and EMS rescued a 17-year-old female Thursday afternoon near the Bibb City water dam.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fire Marshal Ricky Shores, the teen was caught on the rocks with no life jacket while taking pictures at the RiverWalk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is illegal to be on any portion of the river in the whitewater park without the proper floatation device,\u201d said Chief Shores.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Fire and EMS are warning the public about how dangerous it is when the water rises from the Georgia Power generator, which happens every day around 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Shores also says that sirens go off warning people that the water is rising and no matter what, no one is supposed to be on the rocks without a life jacket.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the rescue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtvm.com\/story\/35147217\/video-columbus-fire-and-ems-rescues-teen-at-riverwalk-officials-urge-public-of-water-safety\" target=\"_blank\">HERE\u203a\u203a<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WTVM) \u2013 Columbus Fire and EMS rescued a 17-year-old female Thursday afternoon near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15055,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15053\/revisions\/15055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}