{"id":155393,"date":"2025-09-14T04:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T04:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/155393\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T04:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T04:05:06","slug":"tragic-incident-at-dalton-landfill-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/155393\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic Incident at Dalton Landfill | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man driving near a Dalton garbage and recycling center died after going into a cardiac arrest while behind the wheel Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before 12:30pm, the victim&#8217;s pickup truck left the road and went into a pond during a medical emergency, the City of Dalton said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1BT3rBva2a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials say he died before medical help could arrive.<\/p>\n<p>The Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Management Authority&#8217;s convenience center at 1920 MLK Jr. Boulevard temporarily closed as first responders attended to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A tow truck removed his pickup from the pond.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, the name of the victim has not been released, pending notification of family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We send our deepest condolences to those who knew him and loved him,&#8221; the city stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man driving near a Dalton garbage and recycling center died after going into a cardiac arrest while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[47978,192,44235,47976,9151,95074,44064,20200,6562,79,45399,4177,13911,11016,19048,47977,47981],"class_list":["post-155393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-economy-and-the-environment","tag-environment","tag-environmental-issues","tag-human-impact-on-the-environment","tag-materials","tag-materials-recovery-facility","tag-natural-environment","tag-pollution","tag-recycling","tag-science","tag-sustainability-and-environmental-management","tag-sustainable-development","tag-truck","tag-waste","tag-waste-management","tag-waste-management-concepts","tag-waste-minimisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}