{"id":52509,"date":"2015-06-21T23:53:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T15:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52509"},"modified":"2015-06-21T23:53:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T15:53:33","slug":"man-rescued-after-falling-into-12-metre-crevice-in-singhampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/21\/man-rescued-after-falling-into-12-metre-crevice-in-singhampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Man rescued after falling into 12 metre crevice in Singhampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Capture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52510\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Capture.png\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"486\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Capture.png 486w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Capture-300x217.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SINGHAMPTON, Ontario &#8212; Emergency officials say a man who was trapped overnight after falling down a 12-metre crevice near Singhampton, Ont., has been rescued.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Fire District Chief Stephan Powell said Clearview firefighters responded to a call of a man stuck at the bottom of a cavern (near 10th Concession) at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Powell says the man was conscious, breathing and in stable condition and was located about 12 metres down and six metres across from the opening of the crevice.<\/p>\n<p>He says the man was wedged between two rocks for close to 14 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto firefighters with specialized equipment were called in to assist with the rescue, as were Barrie fire crews and the Provincial Emergency Operations Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Powell says the man was successfully pulled from the cavern around 10 a.m. Sunday morning and was transported to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately known how the man fell into the cavern.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All we know is that he was found there, who reported it or how it was reported is still up in the air,&#8221; said Powell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether he tried to self-extricate himself and got himself stuck, whether part of this crevice caved in&#8230; There are too many unanswered questions until he can be interviewed successfully.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGHAMPTON, Ontario &#8212; Emergency officials say a man who was trapped overnight after falling down a 12-metre crevice near Singhampton, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":52510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52509","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=52509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}