{"id":1143,"date":"2013-07-01T07:14:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T14:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2013-07-01T07:14:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T14:14:52","slug":"drowning-reported-in-american-river-near-howe-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"Drowning reported in American River near Howe Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man drowned Sunday evening in the <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.sacbee.com\/American+River\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">American River<\/a> near Howe Avenue, the fourth case in the city of Sacramento this summer, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento Fire Department received a call at 5:40 p.m. reporting a possible drowning, according to Battalion Chief Shawn Perry. Up to a dozen firefighters searched the river, while a helicopter scanned from above, Perry said.<\/p>\n<p>After an hour, the fire department ended its search without finding the victim. Perry said crews would return when a sighting of the victim is reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve exhausted the survivability of the victim,&#8221; Perry said. He explained that the man could not have survived the frigid water past the time they searched.<\/p>\n<div id=\"more\">\n<p>Perry said the man had little swimming background and went into the river with a friend. The current pulled him in, and witnesses said they spotted the man one to two times about 100 feet offshore, according to Perry.<\/p>\n<p>More at <a title=\"SacBee.com\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/crime\/archives\/2013\/06\/drowning-reported-in-american-river-near-howe-avenue.html\" target=\"_blank\">SacBee.com<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man drowned Sunday evening in the American River near Howe Avenue, the fourth case in the city of Sacramento this summer, officials said. The Sacramento Fire Department received a call at 5:40 p.m. reporting a possible drowning, according to Battalion Chief Shawn Perry. Up to a dozen firefighters searched the river, while a helicopter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=1143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drowning reported in American River near Howe Avenue<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rafting","category-safety","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}