{"id":132844,"date":"2026-01-27T00:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132844\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T00:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:11:16","slug":"sinkhole-opens-after-construction-vehicle-hits-hydrant-in-central-broward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132844\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole opens after construction vehicle hits hydrant in central Broward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0January 26, 2026 at 12:08 PM<\/p>\n<p>Sinkhole opens up in central Broward <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Crews closed a portion of a street in central Broward County on Monday morning after a six-foot-wide sinkhole opened up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened just after 9:45 a.m. in the 100 block of Northwest 27th Terrace in the county\u2019s unincorporated Boulevard Gardens section just outside of Fort Lauderdale, according to the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said \u201ca construction vehicle struck a fire hydrant that flooded the road\u201d and opened up the sinkhole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Utility workers shut off the water and the \u201carea has been closed off as crews work to repair the damages,\u201d deputies said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BSO deputies are investigating the crash.<\/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=\"Roy Ramos\" 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\/a327c0b5-d59c-45a5-a2.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Roy Ramos<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Roy Ramos joined the Local 10 News team in 2018. Roy is a South Florida native who grew up in Florida City. He attended Christopher Columbus High School,\u00a0Homestead Senior High\u00a0School and graduated from St. Thomas University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 26, 2026 at 12:08 PM Sinkhole opens up in central Broward BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Crews closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-132844","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\/132844","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=132844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}