{"id":662982,"date":"2026-05-24T21:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/662982\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:48:08","slug":"boy-scout-group-rescued-in-capon-bridge-after-river-trip-goes-awry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/662982\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy scout group rescued in Capon Bridge after river trip goes awry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Capon-Bridge.jpg\" style=\"display:none;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The boys were rescued Saturday near Lion Lane (Photo\/Hampshire County First Alert Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>CAPON BRIDGE, W.Va. \u2014 A group of boy scouts were rescued Saturday in Hampshire County after they were trapped by river floodwaters.<\/p>\n<p>The group of 28 boys, from Fairfax, Virginia, were on a Cacapon River trip when water speed intensified. The boys ended up stranded on the wrong side of the river.<\/p>\n<p>A Hampshire County First Alert went out mid-afternoon Saturday that a water rescue was necessary near Lion Lane.<\/p>\n<p>The scouts were trapped for about 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>All of the boys were rescued. According to a Hampshire County First Alert, first responders brought the scouts out of the water with an operation that included a tow line.<\/p>\n<p>The boys were given hot cocoa and pizza at a nearby cabin before heading back home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boys were rescued Saturday near Lion Lane (Photo\/Hampshire County First Alert Facebook) CAPON BRIDGE, W.Va. \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-662982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662982","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=662982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}