{"id":4646,"date":"2013-08-20T13:19:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T21:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2013-08-20T17:04:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T01:04:25","slug":"lbfd-firefighter-paramedic-la-county-lifeguard-reunites-with-former-near-drowning-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=4646","title":{"rendered":"LBFD Firefighter-Paramedic \/ LA County Lifeguard reunites with former near-drowning victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over ten years ago, a day of surfing almost turned tragic for young Keita Countee.\u00a0 While surfing with friends at Hermosa Beach, a large wave set caught Keita off guard, knocking him unconscious.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Long Beach Firefighter-Paramedic and\u00a0LA County Lifeguard Kristoph Wattson was on beach tower duty that day.\u00a0 While scanning the surf, Kristoph&#8217;s watchful eye saw trouble in the water.\u00a0 Jumping into action, Kristoph pulled Keita from the water and started CPR as additional help was summoned.\u00a0\u00a0His quick and skillful actions brought positive results and a &#8220;second chance&#8221; at life.<\/p>\n<p>After a decade apart, both men have grown, started families of their own, and were\u00a0recently reunited.<\/p>\n<p>See the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/66696334\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over ten years ago, a day of surfing almost turned tragic for young Keita Countee.\u00a0 While surfing with friends at Hermosa Beach, a large wave set caught Keita off guard, knocking him unconscious.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Long Beach Firefighter-Paramedic and\u00a0LA County Lifeguard Kristoph Wattson was on beach tower duty that day.\u00a0 While scanning the surf, Kristoph&#8217;s watchful eye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publicsafety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4651,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions\/4651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}