{"id":38723,"date":"2025-07-14T11:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/hiker-falls-to-her-death-at-scenic-waterfall-tragic-accident-in-north-carolina\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:30:23","slug":"hiker-falls-to-her-death-at-scenic-waterfall-tragic-accident-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/hiker-falls-to-her-death-at-scenic-waterfall-tragic-accident-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiker Falls to Her Death at Scenic Waterfall \u2014 Tragic Accident in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o9X5QilaEuc?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Tragedy struck at a popular hiking destination in western North Carolina, where a woman in her 20s died after falling more than 70 feet from a waterfall. Emergency crews responded to a 911 call in the early afternoon and rushed to the scene, but the woman was pronounced dead upon arrival. <\/p>\n<p>Multiple agencies assisted in the recovery effort. Authorities continue to remind hikers to use extreme caution when exploring steep or slippery terrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy struck at a popular hiking destination in western North Carolina, where a woman in her 20s died<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}