{"id":62594,"date":"2023-05-04T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/firefighters-receive-swift-water-rescue-training-on-snoqualmie-river-photos\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T17:23:00","slug":"firefighters-receive-swift-water-rescue-training-on-snoqualmie-river-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/firefighters-receive-swift-water-rescue-training-on-snoqualmie-river-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters receive swift water rescue training on Snoqualmie River | Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters from Kent-based Puget Sound Fire, Valley Regional Fire Authority, Renton Regional Fire Authority and Eastside Fire &#038; Rescue recently completed swift water rescue training on the Snoqualmie River near the Snoqualmie Falls.<\/p>\n<p>More than 80 firefighters received the training, about 20 per day over April 24-27, according to Pat Pawlak, Puget Sound Fire spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Firefighters typically attend three different types of swift water training each year,&rdquo; Pawlak said. <\/p>\n<p>This training was designed to provide firefighters with the knowledge and skills needed to identify hazards, self-rescue and effectively manage rescues in swift water environments. <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters rappelled approximately 150 feet down to the riverbank. They also entered the water to search a partially submerged training prop vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent-based Puget Sound Fire joins three other agencies <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":62595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-62594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62594"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=62594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}