{"id":17348,"date":"2013-02-22T09:50:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=17348"},"modified":"2013-02-22T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:50:12","slug":"news-brief-paratroopers-retrieved-from-trees-near-rainier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=17348","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Paratroopers retrieved from trees near Rainier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17347\" style=\"width: 309px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013.0222.jblmtreerescue.robert.scott_3-e1361554231792.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17347\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17347\" title=\"tree rescue jblm\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013.0222.jblmtreerescue.robert.scott_3-e1361554231792.jpg\" alt=\"2013.0222.jblmtreerescue.robert.scott_3\" width=\"299\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighter climbs to reach a paratrooper stuck 80 feet up a tree at JBLM near the town of Rainier. \/ Courtesy photo by Robert Scott<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three members of the Rochester area fire department trained in special rescues responded about 3 p.m. yesterday after winds carried three paratroopers into the trees near the town of Rainier.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was injured but one of the paratroopers, and his parachute, was tangled up 80 feet off the ground, according to West Thurston Regional Fire Authority Chief Robert Scott.<\/p>\n<p>The two-hour rescue operation included 30 members of Thurston County&#8217;s special operations rescue team, comprised of members from six area fire departments, according to Scott. Among them are some skilled at climbing trees and setting up a lowering system to retrieve such subjects.<\/p>\n<p>It happened at the south end of Joint Base Lewis-McChord off Rainier Acres Road, Scott said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter Three members of the Rochester area fire department trained in special rescues responded about 3 p.m. yesterday after winds carried three paratroopers into the trees near the town of Rainier. Nobody was injured but one of the paratroopers, and his parachute, was tangled up 80 feet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-17348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17348"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17353,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17348\/revisions\/17353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}