{"id":19036,"date":"2025-10-29T20:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19036\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:36:41","slug":"crews-recover-body-of-fisherman-who-fell-into-lake-erie-at-edgewater-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19036\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews recover body of fisherman who fell into Lake Erie at Edgewater Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; Rescue crews recovered the body of a 71-year-old man who fell into Lake Erie while fishing off the rocks behind Edgewater Yacht Club.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Edgewater Park\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3L7HPFTJOFGGRKYE7ESZ5CFEL4.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" \/>Edgewater Park<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The man, identified as Tak Yun Wong, of Independence, fell off the rocks just after 6 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Witnesses saw Wong struggling in the 4-6\u2032 waves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cleveland firefighters said Wong was deceased by the time they got to the scene, but they were unable to safely bring him to shore.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Edgewater drowning\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ZGGPW4PL3NG2DKDV2UTVL2PJSM.PNG\" width=\"980\" height=\"544\" \/>Edgewater drowning(woio)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cleveland Metroparks police went back to Edgewater Park Wednesday morning and recovered the body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cleveland firefighters, Cleveland EMS and the U.S. Coast Guard all assisted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; Rescue crews recovered the body of a 71-year-old man who fell into Lake Erie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3418,13342,136,138,137,13343],"class_list":["post-19036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-drowning","tag-edgewater","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-tak-yun-wong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19036","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=19036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}