{"id":710687,"date":"2026-06-02T20:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710687\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T20:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:05:15","slug":"2-people-rescued-from-assiniboine-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710687\/","title":{"rendered":"2 people rescued from Assiniboine River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg firefighters were called to save two people who needed help in the Assiniboine River on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service says the pair was in the water near Augier Avenue shortly before 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The WFPS dispatched its water rescue unit and deployed a drone to locate them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirefighters used a throw ball and personal flotation devices to rescue one person. Bystanders in a canoe helped firefighters rescue the other person,\u201d the WFPS wrote in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Both people were assessed by paramedics on the scene. They did not need to be hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>The WFPS says it does not know how the people ended up in the water.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778261834_283_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg firefighters were called to save two people who needed help in the Assiniboine River on Monday evening.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-710687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}