{"id":782044,"date":"2026-07-05T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782044\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:50:10","slug":"two-pulled-from-lachine-canal-during-overnight-rescue-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782044\/","title":{"rendered":"Two pulled from Lachine Canal during overnight rescue operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were recovered from the Lachine Canal following an overnight search involving the Montreal Fire Department and the Canadian Coast Guard, according to the fire department.<\/p>\n<p>The initial call was received at 11:55 p.m. on July 4 after two people were reported to have fallen into the Lachine Canal near Parc Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Fire Department said approximately 20 to 30 responders took part in the operation. <\/p>\n<p>The search was carried out by two fire department vessels and a Canadian Coast Guard vessel, which alternated during the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Using sonar aboard one of its boats, the fire department said crews located and recovered the two victims. They were then turned over to Urgences-sant\u00e9 for treatment and transport.<\/p>\n<p>The fire department said it could not confirm whether the two victims had died.<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary information from the fire department, one person is believed to have fallen into the water and the second attempted to rescue them. <\/p>\n<p>The department said it could not confirm the exact circumstances of the incident, or the age and gender of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>The operation concluded at approximately 2:02 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal 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=montreal.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782077411_500_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were recovered from the Lachine Canal following an overnight search involving the Montreal Fire Department and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-782044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782044","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=782044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}