{"id":880977,"date":"2026-09-02T17:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/880977\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:40:15","slug":"winnipeg-woman-saves-child-father-from-drowning-in-red-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/880977\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg woman saves child, father from drowning in Red River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Winnipeg woman is being credited with saving the lives of a father and his child.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg police say the woman saved the pair from drowning in the Red River on the evening of Aug. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the woman witnessed the child fall into the Red River near St. John\u2019s Park, followed by the father who was trying to save them.<\/p>\n<p>The woman jumped in and pulled the father from the water, then swam back out to save the child, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs she swam backwards to the shoreline with the unconscious child on her chest, she began performing life-saving measures and continued those efforts upon reaching shore,\u201d police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived and took over CPR efforts. The child was taken to hospital in critical condition, where they were ultimately stabilized. It\u2019s expected they will make a full recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not provide an update on the health of the father.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg police say the woman showed \u201cremarkable courage and selflessness\u201d in coming to the aid of complete strangers.<\/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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788370815_908_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":"A Winnipeg woman is being credited with saving the lives of a father and his child. Winnipeg police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-880977","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\/880977","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=880977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}