{"id":16787,"date":"2019-05-07T08:54:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T13:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=16787"},"modified":"2019-05-07T08:54:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T13:54:30","slug":"firefighters-rescue-man-left-dangling-from-60-foot-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=16787","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters rescue man left dangling from 60-foot tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2019\/05\/02\/firefighters-rescue-nh-man-left-dangling-foot-tree-while-trying-recover-drone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KLTV<\/a>) \u2013 A New Hampshire man who climbed a 60-foot tree trying to retrieve his drone became stuck for about 30 minutes and had to be rescued by firefighters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"card collection-item \" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"card-content card-article\">\n<p>Daniel Lacourse decided Wednesday to climb a Manchester, NH, tree in which his drone had been stuck for two weeks. At first, it seemed simple to Lacourse, who borrowed a friend\u2019s climbing gear and looked up \u201chow to climb\u201d on YouTube.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item \" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"card-content card-article\">\n<p>Lacourse hoisted himself up the tree and used a massive stick to dislodge the drone, but then, things went south.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item \" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"card-content card-article\">\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t expect it to be so difficult, take so much endurance,\u201d Lacourse said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"card collection-item \" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"card-content card-article\">\n<p>The man was left dangling from a rope, 60 feet in the air.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item \" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"card-content card-article\">\n<p>\u201cI was just hanging up there,\u201d Lacourse said. \u201cPanic set in when I couldn\u2019t feel my legs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item \" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"card-content card-article\">\n<p>Lacourse\u2019s friend called the Manchester Fire Department. Deputy Chief Michael Gamache was one of many who answered the call.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2019\/05\/02\/firefighters-rescue-nh-man-left-dangling-foot-tree-while-trying-recover-drone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>READ MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(KLTV) \u2013 A New Hampshire man who climbed a 60-foot tree trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16787","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\/16787","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=16787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16789,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787\/revisions\/16789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}