Three boaters were rescued from Lake Erie after their watercraft overturned north of Fairport Harbor.<\/p>\n
According to a Fairport Harbor Fire Department news release, on July 30, Lake County Central Communications received a call from U.S. Coast Guard Eastern Great Lakes Sector, reporting an overturned watercraft with three people aboard approximately one to two miles north to northeast of Fairport Harbor.<\/p>\n
Central Communications dispatched the Water Rescue assignment consisting of Fairport Harbor, Mentor, Painesville, Painesville Township and Perry Fire Departments and Fairport Harbor Police at 5:43 p.m.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Coast Guard Cleveland Station sent a vessel, as the Coast Guard Fairport Station was unstaffed. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Watercraft also sent their vessel located in Fairport Harbor.<\/p>\n
According to the release, the overturned catamaran was located at 6:09 p.m., all three passengers were wearing personal floatation devices, The passengers were taken to shore by Fairport Harbor FD Jet Ski, Painesville and Mentor FD boats.<\/p>\n
All passengers were uninjured.<\/p>\n
ODNR conducted the uprighting of the catamaran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three boaters were rescued from Lake Erie after their watercraft overturned north of Fairport Harbor. According to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[109382,136,138,137,260,109383,109380,109384,109381],"class_list":["post-257301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-a-fairport-harbor-fire-department-news-release","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-lake-erie","tag-on-july-30","tag-three-boaters-rescued","tag-u-s-coast-guard-rd-eastern-great-lakes-sector","tag-unharmed-in-fairport-harbor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257301","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=257301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}