{"id":302630,"date":"2026-06-10T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302630\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:45:07","slug":"firefighters-extract-man-who-fell-while-working-on-barge-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302630\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters extract man who fell while working on barge | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">SAN CARLOS ISLAND, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?f=html&amp;t=article%2Ccollection%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;l=25&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=South+Trail+Fire+%26+Rescue+Service+District\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">South Trail Fire &amp; Rescue Service District<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?f=html&amp;t=article%2Ccollection%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;l=25&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=Iona+McGregor+Fire+District+\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iona McGregor Fire District<\/a> responded to an entrapment call, extracting a man who fell while working on a barge.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Along with Fort Myers Beach crews, first responders received the initial entrapment call at around 9 a.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">First responders were able to successfully rescue the entrapped man, transporting him to a nearby hospital to treat his injuries.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WINK News traveled to the scene where reporter Haley Jacobs spoke to a barge worker who said the trapped worker had been sandblasting one of the barges and fell into a hole.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN CARLOS ISLAND, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The South Trail Fire &amp; Rescue Service District and Iona McGregor Fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-302630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}