{"id":101454,"date":"2025-12-31T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/101454\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:41:07","slug":"as-the-worlds-cities-welcome-2026-miami-gets-ready-to-drop-the-orange-and-fort-lauderdale-the-anchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/101454\/","title":{"rendered":"As the world\u2019s cities welcome 2026, Miami gets ready to drop The Orange and Fort Lauderdale The Anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0December 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM<\/p>\n<p>Local 10\u2019s livestream countdowns start at 1 p.m. New Year&#8217;s Eve Celebrations: New Zealand, Australia, and Tokyo welcome 2026   <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Steve Carpenter, better known as Mr. Neon, is proud of being part of Miami\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve tradition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The city will welcome 2026 by dropping the artist\u2019s glowing orange at midnight from the top of the InterContinental Hotel in Downtown Miami. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s amazing! When I first built it and designed it, I didn\u2019t know it was going to become an icon,\u201d Carpenter said. \u201cI just thought we would do it for New Year\u2019s [Eve] may be one or two years. I never dreamed it would be going on 40 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Downtown Fort Lauderdale was preparing to drop The Anchor, a 20-foot-tall sculpture weighing about 800 pounds. The lighting of the Anchor and a drone show start at 6:55 p.m. at Southwest Second Street and Fifth Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dr. Francis Amador, the medical director at Broward Health Pediatric Emergency Department, asked the public to leave the fireworks to the experts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe have our fair share of amputations and blown-up fingers,\u201d Amador said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News livestreams start at 11 p.m. with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/31\/watch-live-tonight-new-years-celebrations-across-south-florida\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/31\/watch-live-tonight-new-years-celebrations-across-south-florida\/\">the local South Florida countdown<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/national\/2025\/12\/31\/watch-live-tonight-new-years-celebrations-from-coast-to-coast\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/national\/2025\/12\/31\/watch-live-tonight-new-years-celebrations-from-coast-to-coast\/\">the Coast-to-Coast <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/national\/2025\/12\/31\/watch-live-tonight-new-years-celebrations-from-coast-to-coast\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/national\/2025\/12\/31\/watch-live-tonight-new-years-celebrations-from-coast-to-coast\/\">NYE 2026 celebrations<\/a> &#8212; including New York City\u2019s Times Square and the main party at Las Vegas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Trent Kelly\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/gmg\/379f21d1-d3cb-436b-9d60-fd7b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Trent Kelly<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Trent Kelly is an award-winning multimedia journalist who joined the Local 10 News team in June 2018. Trent is no stranger to Florida. Born in Tampa, he attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he graduated with honors from the UF College of Journalism and Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM Updated:\u00a0December 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM Local 10\u2019s livestream countdowns start at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-101454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}