{"id":188639,"date":"2026-05-10T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188639\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:00:06","slug":"kite-sailor-rescued-from-lake-erie-off-fairport-harbor-fire-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188639\/","title":{"rendered":"Kite sailor rescued from Lake Erie off Fairport Harbor, fire department says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">FAIRPORT HARBOR, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; The Fairport Harbor Fire Department responded to a water rescue Saturday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the fire department, the incident was reported at approximately 4:38 p.m., located in Lake Erie off Fairport Harbor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A kite sailor was unable to make it back to shore due to an equipment issue, and the fire department\u2019s jet ski was deployed to assist. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The kite sailor and his sail were safely brought to shore uninjured, the fire department said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Multiple departments assisted in the rescue, including Mentor Fire Department, Painesville City Fire Department, Painesville Township Fire Department and Perry Joint Fire District. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAIRPORT HARBOR, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; The Fairport Harbor Fire Department responded to a water rescue Saturday afternoon. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,84098,44710,84093,84096,84092,84099,84100,84101,260,84095,84094,84097],"class_list":["post-188639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fairport","tag-fairport-harbor","tag-fairport-harbor-fire-department","tag-fairport-harbor-lakefront-park","tag-fairport-harbor-ohio","tag-fairport-ohio","tag-jet-ski-rescue","tag-kite-sailing","tag-lake-erie","tag-lake-erie-fairport-harbor","tag-lake-erie-ohio","tag-water-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}