{"id":7069,"date":"2011-05-26T16:28:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T20:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7069"},"modified":"2011-05-26T15:31:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T19:31:28","slug":"firefighter-drowns-while-rescuing-3-kids-in-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7069","title":{"rendered":"Firefighter Drowns While Rescuing 3 Kids  In Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGIA &#8212; Central Georgia firefighter <strong>Michael Dewayne Jones,<\/strong> 24, died while rescuing three children. <strong>Jones <\/strong>drowned at Lake Tobesofkee while saving his two sons,<strong> Joshua<\/strong>, 5, and <strong>Jarell<\/strong>, 7, and a little girl who was also playing in the water.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The little girl started drowning,&#8221; said <strong>Michael&#8217;s<\/strong> sister <strong>Tiffany Jones<\/strong>. &#8220;He saved her. My nephew started drowning; he saved him. My other nephew started to drown and somehow my other nephew got back in the water and started to drown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His wife, <strong>Tykia Richmond<\/strong> left the family at the lake for a run at a convenient store. She returned to her husband in the water and bystanders holding her children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael<\/strong> had been with the fire department for just a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGIA &#8212; Central Georgia firefighter Michael Dewayne Jones, 24, died while rescuing three children. Jones drowned at Lake Tobesofkee while saving his two sons, Joshua, 5, and Jarell, 7, and a little girl who was also playing in the water. &#8220;The little girl started drowning,&#8221; said Michael&#8217;s sister Tiffany Jones. &#8220;He saved her. My nephew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}