{"id":322771,"date":"2020-05-13T06:06:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=322771"},"modified":"2020-05-13T06:06:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:06:13","slug":"man-hurt-after-car-plunges-off-bird-island-ravine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/man-hurt-after-car-plunges-off-bird-island-ravine\/","title":{"rendered":"Man hurt after car plunges off Bird Island ravine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_322772\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-322772\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Man-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-322772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Man-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-322772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services photo posted on the DFEMS Facebook page shows the car that plunged off the Bird Island Lookout ravine. (DFEMS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A man who sustained a neck wound after his car fell off a ravine at the Bird Island Lookout in Marpi was rescued yesterday morning and brought to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services statement, the victim sustained a 2-inch laceration in his neck and was rushed to the Commonwealth Health Center emergency room at 12:50am.<\/p>\n<p>DFEMS did not provide further information on the person\u2019s condition. There was also no immediate information on the victim\u2019s identity or what caused the car to fall into the ravine.<\/p>\n<p>The DFEMS statement said that it received a call of an auto run off incident at 11:45am yesterday and units from the Susupe Fire Station, the Garapan Fire Station, and the Kagman Fire Station were dispatched to the location at 11:45am, with the first DFEMS unit arriving on scene at 11:54am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRescuers were able to extricate the patient and fully mobilize the patient using a cervical collar and spine board to prevent further\u00a0injuries,\u201d the DFEMS statement said. (Saipan Tribune)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who sustained a neck wound after his car fell off a ravine at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":322772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[264,162],"class_list":["post-322771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-bird-island","tag-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}