{"id":122899,"date":"2026-01-18T15:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/122899\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:38:06","slug":"elderly-man-hospitalized-pulled-from-water-after-losing-consciousness-while-working-on-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/122899\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly man hospitalized, pulled from water after losing consciousness while working on boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0January 18, 2026 at 10:17 AM<\/p>\n<p>Elderly man rushed to hospital after near drowning in Fort Lauderdale <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 An elderly man was pulled from the water after nearly drowning in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened Saturday around 5:15 p.m. along the 1200 block of 17th Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Fort Lauderdale police, officers responded after receiving reports of a possible drowning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said an elderly homeowner was in the water cleaning the underside of his boat when he lost consciousness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Good Samaritans pulled the man from the water and performed CPR until first responders arrived, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The man was rushed to Broward General Medical Center by Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue as a trauma alert. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There has been no update on his health status, or the circumstances that caused him to become unresponsive while working on his vessel. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"David Dwork\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3469fa6e-3c52-46d2-a0.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>David Dwork<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">David Dwork joined the WPLG Local 10 News team in August 2019. Born and raised in Miami-Dade County, David has covered South Florida sports since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 18, 2026 at 10:17 AM Elderly man rushed to hospital after near drowning in Fort Lauderdale FORT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-122899","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\/122899","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=122899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}