{"id":437499,"date":"2026-01-29T20:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/437499\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T20:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:28:07","slug":"helicopter-crashes-in-the-meramec-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/437499\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter crashes in the Meramec River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">SULLIVAN, Mo. (First Alert 4) &#8211; The Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating after a helicopter went down near Sullivan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">According to troopers, a helicopter went down at Meramec State Park before 1:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The Sullivan Fire Protection District said they confirmed the helicopter crashed in the Meramec River. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">On social media, they posted, \u201c4 people out of the water and deploying rescue swimmers now.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The Franklin County Sheriff\u2019s Office told First Alert 4 that those who were on the helicopter at the time of the crash suffered minor injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KMOV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SULLIVAN, Mo. (First Alert 4) &#8211; The Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating after a helicopter went down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,8108,206663,74736,71724,451,54906,71723,71725,206662,3,206664,452,453,71722],"class_list":["post-437499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-down","tag-downed","tag-first-alert-4","tag-fox-2-now","tag-headlines","tag-helicopter","tag-ksdk","tag-ktvi","tag-mshp","tag-news","tag-news-4r","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-watching-out-for-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437499","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=437499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}