{"id":251366,"date":"2026-07-24T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251366\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:54:07","slug":"pennsylvania-hot-air-balloon-accident-injures-3-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251366\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania hot air balloon accident injures 3 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">A hot air balloon ride in Pennsylvania did not go as planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Three people were injured after strong winds blew through at a carnival in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Officials said a powerful gust lifted the balloon into the air, pulling a crew member 15 feet off the ground, before falling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The basket dragged across the ground with passengers inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Medics took the three injured people to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hot air balloon ride in Pennsylvania did not go as planned. Three people were injured after strong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25761,107466,1247,28,30,29,13714,107467,107469,107468],"class_list":["post-251366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-carnival","tag-hot-air-balloon-accident","tag-injuries","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-strong-winds","tag-whio","tag-whio-tv","tag-whiotv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251366","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=251366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}