{"id":971,"date":"2010-07-24T21:47:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T04:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2010-07-24T21:47:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T04:47:22","slug":"news-brief-parachutist-injured-in-hard-landing-at-toledo-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Parachutist injured in ‘hard landing’ at Toledo airport"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Part of a group holding a family gathering at the Toledo Airport prepare to take their turn at skydiving minutes after another parachutist is taken away by ambulance following a hard landing.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 25-year-old skydiver was hospitalized this afternoon after he had what was described as a hard landing in Toledo.<\/p>\n

Lewis County Fire District 2 and paramedics were called about 4:30 p.m. to the Toledo Airport off Jackson Highway north of town.<\/p>\n

Heather Whittaker of Skydive Toledo was among a number of professionals there – serving a group holding a family reunion – and taking some of them up in the air to parachute.<\/p>\n

Five of them hopped in a truck and headed to the spot where the man came down, several hundred yards away between the runway and the taxi way.<\/p>\n

“He had a hard landing,” Whittaker said.<\/p>\n

The five are part of a group that train for just such emergencies, according to Whittaker.<\/p>\n

The injured man, whose name was not released, was taken by ambulance to Providence Centralia. The nature of his injuries wasn’t available.<\/p>\n

Whittaker said he wasn’t one of the clients Skydive Toledo was entertaining today. They didn’t see what happened, and she preferred they didn’t find out, she said, as a foursome arrived to the runway to go up in a small plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter A 25-year-old skydiver was hospitalized this afternoon after he had what was described as a hard landing in Toledo. Lewis County Fire District 2 and paramedics were called about 4:30 p.m. to the Toledo Airport off Jackson Highway north of town. Heather Whittaker of Skydive Toledo […]<\/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-971","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\/971","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=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}