FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A man was taken to the hospital after he fell from a tree in the San Joaquin River bottom near Fresno while reportedly trying to rescue a pet cat on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Fresno firefighters were called to the area near Riverside Golf Course around 3:30 p.m. <\/p>\n
Crews arrived and found an adult man who had been injured in the fall and could not walk.<\/p>\n
The Fresno Fire Department\u2019s Urban Search and Rescue Team was requested to assist.<\/p>\n
Firefighters carried the man up from the river bottom, and he was then transported to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
The man\u2019s family was with him when the accident happened and was able to quickly call for help.<\/p>\n
Fire officials said the incident is a reminder for people hiking or taking part in recreation in remote areas to travel with a buddy when possible and make sure someone knows where they are going and when they expect to return. <\/p>\n
In an emergency, having someone who can quickly call for help and provide a location can make a significant difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A man was taken to the hospital after he fell from a tree in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-417041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417041","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=417041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}