{"id":201990,"date":"2026-03-23T03:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201990\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T03:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:25:08","slug":"2-rescued-after-van-crashes-into-water-in-fort-lauderdale-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201990\/","title":{"rendered":"2 rescued after van crashes into water in Fort Lauderdale community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 22, 2026 at 11:08 PM<\/p>\n<p>2 people rescued after van plunges into water in Fort Lauderdale neighborhood <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Police blocked off the gate to a Fort Lauderdale community Sunday night after a van crashed into the water, drawing a large response from officers and firefighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man staying in the community said the van blasted through the entrance gate before ending up in the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Video shared with Local 10 News shows dozens of police officers and sheriff\u2019s deputies inside the neighborhood as first responders worked the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue said crews were called after reports that a van had driven into the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The witness said he watched as first responders pulled two people from the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey drove into the water and the guy got rescued. They performed CPR on him. He came back to life, and then the girl didn\u2019t get pulled out until 15 to 20 minutes later,\u201d said witness Liam Lenihan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both people were taken to a hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Their conditions are unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The crash is under investigation.<\/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=\"Pablo Hernandez\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/96ffb9dd-5e0a-4be5-8ede-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Pablo Hernandez <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Pablo Hernandez is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born in Cuba and has lived in Miami, Florida since 2002.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Brett Knese\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/d3b079d0-0444-499b-8cb7-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Brett Knese<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Brett Knese joined the Local 10 News team as a general assignment reporter in March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 22, 2026 at 11:08 PM 2 people rescued after van plunges into water in Fort Lauderdale neighborhood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-201990","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\/201990","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=201990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}