{"id":225381,"date":"2025-09-14T05:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225381\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T05:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:21:12","slug":"tragic-incident-at-dalton-landfill-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225381\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic Incident at Dalton Landfill | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man driving near a Dalton garbage and recycling center died after going into a cardiac arrest while behind the wheel Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before 12:30pm, the victim&#8217;s pickup truck left the road and went into a pond during a medical emergency, the City of Dalton said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1BT3rBva2a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Facebook post.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials say he died before medical help could arrive.<\/p>\n<p>The Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Management Authority&#8217;s convenience center at 1920 MLK Jr. Boulevard temporarily closed as first responders attended to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A tow truck removed his pickup from the pond.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, the name of the victim has not been released, pending notification of family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We send our deepest condolences to those who knew him and loved him,&#8221; the city stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man driving near a Dalton garbage and recycling center died after going into a cardiac arrest while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":225382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[22137,746,22134,22140,493,121954,1752,2128,12578,159,28476,1754,40031,67,132,68,16025,8933,121952,121953],"class_list":{"0":"post-225381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-economy-and-the-environment","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-environmental-issues","11":"tag-human-impact-on-the-environment","12":"tag-materials","13":"tag-materials-recovery-facility","14":"tag-natural-environment","15":"tag-pollution","16":"tag-recycling","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-sustainability-and-environmental-management","19":"tag-sustainable-development","20":"tag-truck","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-waste","25":"tag-waste-management","26":"tag-waste-management-concepts","27":"tag-waste-minimisation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115200975533525403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}