{"id":182495,"date":"2019-10-12T22:37:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T03:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=182495"},"modified":"2019-10-13T10:10:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T15:10:50","slug":"two-men-rescued-stranded-in-pickup-elm-river-sat-a-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=182495","title":{"rendered":"Two men rescued, stranded in pickup, Elm River, Sat a.m."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRANDIN, N.D.\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvrr.com\/2019\/10\/12\/two-men-rescued-from-elm-river\/\">KVRR<\/a>)\u00a0 \u2014 The Traill County and Cass County Sheriff\u2019s Offices rescue two men stranded in the Elm River for nearly three hours this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies found them in a pickup completely surrounded by water near Grandin around 5:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>34\u2013year\u2013old Eric Kent and 33\u2013year\u2013old Chad Erickson, both of Grandin, told officers their truck went into the river around two.<\/p>\n<p>Traill County Sheriff Steve Hunt says officers tried to use an aerial ladder truck to reach the men but needed assistance from two Cass County airboats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said they were just talking to one another and didn\u2019t realize the water was there until it was too late.\u00a0 They were already in.\u00a0 There was a swift current in the river at that point.\u00a0 The area where they were crossing is actually a taxis crossing or concrete low water crossing across the river and like I said the current was pretty strong and when they got onto the concrete it just swept them.\u00a0 We\u2019re very lucky that they didn\u2019t get completely swept off and down the river,\u201d Hunt said.<\/p>\n<p>Jahner and Hunt say they want to remind the public to abide by no travel advisories issued during bad weather.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-categories-tags\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRANDIN, N.D.\u00a0 (KVRR)\u00a0 \u2014 The Traill County and Cass County Sheriff\u2019s Offices rescue two men stranded in the Elm River for nearly three hours this morning. Deputies found them in a pickup completely surrounded by water near Grandin around 5:00 a.m. 34\u2013year\u2013old Eric Kent and 33\u2013year\u2013old Chad Erickson, both of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182505,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182495\/revisions\/182505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}