{"id":34731,"date":"2021-07-16T04:18:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T08:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=34731"},"modified":"2021-07-25T20:18:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T00:18:16","slug":"crews-recover-missing-diver-at-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2021\/07\/16\/crews-recover-missing-diver-at-power-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews Recover Missing Diver At Power Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"34732\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2021\/07\/16\/crews-recover-missing-diver-at-power-plant\/lge-mill-creek-plant\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LGE-Mill-Creek-Plant.jpg?fit=980%2C735&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"980,735\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"LG&amp;#038;E Mill Creek Plant\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LGE-Mill-Creek-Plant.jpg?fit=980%2C735&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LGE-Mill-Creek-Plant.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LGE-Mill-Creek-Plant.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LGE-Mill-Creek-Plant.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LGE-Mill-Creek-Plant.jpg?w=980&amp;ssl=1 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nEmergency responders worked most of Thursday (7\/15) afternoon to recover the body of a contract worker who was sucked into a intake pump at an LG&#038;E power plant.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Louisville Metro police said late Thursday afternoon that their efforts turned into a recovery mission once first responders arrived on the scene. Firefighters from several departments were called to the Mill Creek Power plant at 14,600 Dixie Highway shortly after 1 pm. LG&#038;E spokeswoman Chris Whelan said a two-person contract diving team consisting of a monitor and a diver were doing routine inspections when the monitor lost contact with the diver. The divers are from Bulldog Diving Inc.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company\u2019s website, the Mill Creek Generation Station is LG&#038;E\u2019s largest coal-fired power plant. It sits on 544 acres and went into operation in 1972 to meet an unprecedented increase for energy in the Louisville area.<\/p>\n<p>Recovery operations continued into the evening and the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency responders worked most of Thursday (7\/15) afternoon to recover the body of a contract worker who was sucked into a intake pump at an LG&#038;E power plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":34732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-92b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-04 02:29:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LGE-Mill-Creek-Plant.jpg?fit=980%2C735&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34736,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34731\/revisions\/34736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}