{"id":301,"date":"2011-07-05T14:13:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T14:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:33:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T17:33:27","slug":"alcohol-ban-fewer-rescues-on-american-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Alcohol ban = fewer rescues on American River"},"content":{"rendered":"

A series of dramatic river rescues about 10 days ago may have set the tone for the 4th of July holiday weekend.\u00a0 Some avoided rivers like the American because of the dangers.\u00a0 But an alcohol ban approved by the State Legislature is getting most of the credit for taking the sizzle out of the 4th.<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

The loud sounds of a helicopter could be heard moving up and down the American River on Monday.\u00a0 But it\u2019s what you couldn\u2019t see or hear that made the most striking difference: there was less alcohol on the river.\u00a0 25-year-old Elizabeth Depelteau was struck by the change. \u00a0\u201dThey would get really wasted and everybody would fight and mud wrestle and do all those kinds of things.\u00a0 It was really scary.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there are tradeoffs. Patrol boats from the Sacramento Metro Fire Department gave FOX40\u2019s John Lobertini a front row seat to the cold, fast moving water.\u00a0 Dam releases from Folsom Lake have slowed, but the river is still moving at double its normal speed.\u00a0 It\u2019s cold too, a dangerous 52 degrees says Assistant Fire Chief Scott Cockrum.\u00a0 \u201dAgain, it\u2019s a 50 degree temperature difference between the outside ambient temperature and the water.\u00a0 It just shocks your body and takes your breath away from you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A series of dramatic river rescues about 10 days ago may have set the tone for the 4th of July holiday weekend.\u00a0 Some avoided rivers like the American because of the dangers.\u00a0 But an alcohol ban approved by the State Legislature is getting most of the credit for taking the sizzle out of the 4th.. … Continue reading VIDEO: Alcohol ban = fewer rescues on American River<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rafting","category-safety","category-video","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}