{"id":734671,"date":"2026-06-13T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/734671\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T18:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:13:10","slug":"lakeland-firefighters-help-land-helicopter-in-school-soccer-field-respond-to-moose-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/734671\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland firefighters help land helicopter in school soccer field, respond to moose collision\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4e5f0914-8aa1-4135-8edf-f56479cfcdb7.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fire fighters still made time for training after responding to two other calls. (Image Credit: Facebook\/Lakeland &amp; District Fire Dept.)<\/p>\n<p>By Susan McNeil<\/p>\n<p>Busy 24 hours<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 13, 2026 | 10:49 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It was an eventful 24 hours for members of the Lakeland &amp; District Fire Department, who first helped the STARS helicopter land in the soccer field at Christopher Lake Public School and later responded to two vehicles that hit the same moose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the department\u2019s social media posts, firefighters were called at 12:55 a.m. on June 12 to help the STARS helicopter land in the Village of Christopher Lake following a last-minute flight diversion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter had to circle above while firefighters ensured the landing zone was safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce crews verified there were no hazards in the landing zone, STARS was guided to the ground on the soccer field at Christopher Lake Public School,\u201d the department said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire fighters still made time for training after responding to two other calls. (Image Credit: Facebook\/Lakeland &amp; District&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-734671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734671","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=734671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}