{"id":13901,"date":"2014-06-06T15:59:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T07:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13901"},"modified":"2014-06-06T15:02:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T07:02:49","slug":"toddler-in-rafting-accident-on-b-c-river-expected-to-fully-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/06\/toddler-in-rafting-accident-on-b-c-river-expected-to-fully-recover\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler in rafting accident on B.C. river expected to fully recover"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13902\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Hoodoos_at_Dutch_creek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13902\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Hoodoos_at_Dutch_creek.jpg\" alt=\"The Hoodoos at Dutch Creek, near Canal Flats, BC. Photo by LaurieKingdon \/ Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Hoodoos_at_Dutch_creek.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Hoodoos_at_Dutch_creek-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hoodoos at Dutch Creek, near Canal Flats, BC. Photo by LaurieKingdon \/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CALGARY\u2014A one-year-old girl is expected to fully recover after spending an hour in the water during a rafting accident near Fairmont, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>The toddler was flown to the Alberta Children\u2019s Hospital in Calgary on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>She had been in an inflatable dingy with her 23-year-old mother and the woman\u2019s other child, a three-month old baby boy, floating down the Dutch Creek River.<\/p>\n<p>The girl fell out after the dingy hit some debris.<\/p>\n<p>The mother managed to hold onto the baby boy, but the toddler was carried away by the current.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP commandeered a local helicopter to assist in the search for the baby, but it was volunteers on the ground who spotted the little girl on a sandbar with her head out of the water.<\/p>\n<p>Fire department officials rescued the child, who was conscious and whimpering.<br \/>\nShe was first taken to hospital in Invermere, B.C., and then flown by air ambulance to Calgary, where she was initially listed as being in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP say their investigation is ongoing and no decision on charges has yet been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY\u2014A one-year-old girl is expected to fully recover after spending an hour in the water during a rafting accident near &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}