{"id":258087,"date":"2026-08-03T03:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258087\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:57:12","slug":"cleveland-fire-crews-rescue-2-from-kayak-in-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258087\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland fire crews rescue 2 from kayak in Lake Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; Cleveland fire crews rescued two people aboard a kayak Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Cleveland Division of Fire said its crews responded to a report of a kayaker in distress off the coast of Lake Erie in the 15400 block of Lakeshore Boulevard at 5:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When crews arrived at the scene, a rescue swimmer and a diver were deployed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fire crews said they located two people who were on one kayak when breaking waves struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crews cited Marine 21, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources as assisting at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two people rescued received evaluations from Cleveland EMS on the scene and declined further medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Cleveland Division of Fire said at the time of the rescue, waves were reported to be between 3 and 5 feet, which created hazardous conditions along the shoreline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland19.com\/2026\/08\/02\/national-weather-service-warns-dangerous-lake-erie-swimming-conditions\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland19.com\/2026\/08\/02\/national-weather-service-warns-dangerous-lake-erie-swimming-conditions\/\">RELATED: National Weather Service warns of dangerous Lake Erie swimming conditions<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It added that one of the two rescued was wearing a life jacket and the other was not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The fire division reminded the public, \u201cto always wear a properly fitted U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jacket, as lake conditions can change rapidly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; Cleveland fire crews rescued two people aboard a kayak Sunday. The Cleveland Division of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[76,109589,109586,136,138,137,109587,260,109588,293],"class_list":["post-258087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-division-of-fire","tag-cleveland-fire","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-kayak-rescue","tag-lake-erie","tag-lakeshore-boulevard","tag-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258087","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=258087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}