{"id":290021,"date":"2026-04-28T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290021\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:02:08","slug":"hot-air-balloon-slams-into-side-of-casino-near-sacramento-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290021\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot air balloon slams into side of casino near Sacramento \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strong winds caused a hot air balloon to lift off the ground and slam into the side of a casino near Sacramento Monday afternoon, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The Elk Grove Police Department said the balloon &#8220;made an unplanned launch from Sky River Casino due to unexpected strong winds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The balloon hit the side of the casino and a power line before eventually landing in a field southeast of Grant Line Road, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot, who was the only person on board, was not hurt, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strong winds caused a hot air balloon to lift off the ground and slam into the side of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-290021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-california","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}