{"id":1145,"date":"2009-03-26T07:16:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2009-03-26T07:16:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T15:16:50","slug":"jet-ski-takes-off-without-its-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"Jet Ski Takes Off Without It&#8217;s Rider"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>At 1:58 pm on the afternoon of March 25, Long Beach Fire Engine 8 and Rescue Boat 1 responded to 5875 Appian Way to a report of a pwc (Personal Water Craft) requiring assistance.\u00a0 The rider said that the throttle stuck in the &#8220;wide open&#8221; position.\u00a0 The rider fell off, but the ski kept going.\u00a0 The pwc raced all the way across the channel at approximately 60+MPH, hit the sand at the Girl Scout Base (under the bridge), skidded all the way up the beach, flew through the fence, and rolled across two lanes of traffic on Appian Way.\u00a0 It stopped, upside-down, in the South bound side of Appian Way.\u00a0 There were no injuries to the rider, bystanders or to emergency responders.\u00a0 The only damage reported was to the pwc and the fence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 1:58 pm on the afternoon of March 25, Long Beach Fire Engine 8 and Rescue Boat 1 responded to 5875 Appian Way to a report of a pwc (Personal Water Craft) requiring assistance.\u00a0 The rider said that the throttle stuck in the &#8220;wide open&#8221; position.\u00a0 The rider fell off, but the ski kept going.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}