{"id":94345,"date":"2019-04-26T14:16:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T20:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/video-drone-footage-shows-rescue-of-kayaker-from-vallecito-creek\/"},"modified":"2019-04-26T14:16:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T20:16:45","slug":"video-drone-footage-shows-rescue-of-kayaker-from-vallecito-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/video-drone-footage-shows-rescue-of-kayaker-from-vallecito-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Drone footage shows rescue of kayaker from Vallecito Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7a8db0d9-d001-4ec6-aad1-58961392e939&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7a8db0d9-d001-4ec6-aad1-58961392e939&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7a8db0d9-d001-4ec6-aad1-58961392e939&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7a8db0d9-d001-4ec6-aad1-58961392e939&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1743\" height=\"955\" alt=\"Drone footage shows the rescue of an injured kayaker Tuesday on Vallecito Creek.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Drone footage shows the rescue of an injured kayaker Tuesday on Vallecito Creek.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Upper Pine River Fire Protection District<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nYZ_MOVkyw0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Upper Pine River Fire Protection District posted drone footage showing the rescue mission of an injured kayaker Tuesday on Vallecito Creek.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were able to extricate that man, which required lifting him 100 vertical feet to the top of the canyon. The injured kayaker was able to walk out of the area on his own.<\/p>\n<p>It appeared the man became injured at a Class 4 rapid known as Trash Can. The Vallecito Creek stretch is considered a remote and expert run, with up to Class 5 rapids.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>River Fire Protection District lifted man from 100-foot canyon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[842,1834,1370,1500,1394],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-94345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-canoeing-and-kayaking","tag-kayaking","tag-upper-pine-river-fire-protection-district","tag-vallecito","tag-vallecito-reservoir"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94345"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=94345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}