{"id":17578,"date":"2026-10-12T12:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/meigs-county-man-dies-in-boating-incident\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T12:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:42:33","slug":"meigs-county-man-dies-in-boating-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/meigs-county-man-dies-in-boating-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Meigs County man dies in boating incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/local3news.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/3\/e5\/3e5ec1bb-6e46-5c76-9e44-b16a15439e89\/61a66f4e71cd4.image.jpg?resize=200%2C150\"\/>                                                                                            <\/figure>\n<p>A Meigs County man is dead after a boating incident at the Watts Bar Reservoir Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency says Leyroy Fairbanks was found dead by rescue crews near the Tennessee Valley Authority boat ramp on Highway 68 after his family called to say he had not come home yet.<\/p>\n<p>The TWRA says Fairbanks was not wearing a life jacket.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 19th boating related death in Tennessee this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Meigs County man is dead after a boating incident at the Watts Bar Reservoir Sunday night.<br \/>\nThe Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency says Leyroy Fairbanks was found dead by rescue crews near the Tennessee Valley Authority boat ramp on Highway 68 after his family called to say he had not come home yet.<br \/>\nThe TWRA says Fairbanks was not wearing a life jacket.<br \/>\nThis is the 19th boating related death in Tennessee this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}