{"id":158030,"date":"2026-02-17T04:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/158030\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:18:06","slug":"hero-reunites-with-woman-he-saved-from-martin-county-canal-crash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/158030\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero reunites with woman he saved from Martin County canal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">A Martin County man who rescued a mother and three children from a canal after a medical emergency is reuniting with the family he saved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Last week, Casey Curtis stepped in when Shyeniqua Wilkins&#8217; <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-martin-county\/news-conference-after-good-samaritan-saves-pregnant-woman-from-submerged-car-along-i-95-in-martin-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">car veered into a canal<\/a> during a medical emergency in Martin County. Wilkins was rushed to the hospital and spent days on a ventilator, unable to breathe on her own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;She was completely lifeless and unconscious,&#8221; Curtis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;From seeing her to that\u2014 to today is just amazing to see her alive and lively and laughing and joking around it&#8217;s been fantastic,&#8221; Curtis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Curtis says as Wilkins recovers, he&#8217;s being thanked repeatedly by the family for helping save her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-a-mother-of-five-recover-from-tragic-accident?attribution_id=sl:320692e1-313d-48b2-8059-3d54fa91eeb5&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1770864502&amp;utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&amp;utm_content=amp17_ta&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwRlRTSAQAaf1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeim2IZwSG9VxB_FX9_5N7pSdVXE9V8WFE0MGIocLul_OdGT6UZsEC8N-aUyE_aem_X95-RzvtRhi_k7Oh6v-0wQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> has been started for the family as they lost their car and face medical expenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Martin County man who rescued a mother and three children from a canal after a medical emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-158030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158030","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=158030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}