{"id":7499,"date":"2025-09-08T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7499\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:30:08","slug":"rescue-117-helicopter-recovers-person-who-fell-from-ferry-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7499\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue 117 helicopter recovers person who fell from ferry &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Coast Guard helicopter, Rescue 117, out of Waterford Airport located and recovered a person earlier today, Sunday, September 9, who fell from a ferry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A spokesperson for the Coast Guard said the person had fallen overboard from the Shannon Killimer ferry earlier today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8216;Shortly after 09.20, MRSC Valentia received a report that a person had fallen overboard from the ferry,&#8217; said the spokesperson in the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8216;An extensive search and rescue mission was initiated immediately, involving a fleet of local vessels, Ballybunion and Kilkee Coast Guard units and Kilrush and Fenit RNLI,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The casualty was located and recovered by the Coast Guard helicopter and transferred into the care of the HSE at Limerick University Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Coast Guard helicopter, Rescue 117, out of Waterford Airport located and recovered a person earlier today, Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-7499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}