{"id":212858,"date":"2026-03-31T11:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212858\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:02:29","slug":"construction-worker-trapped-when-water-main-break-floods-tunnel-in-miami-dade-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212858\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction worker trapped when water main break floods tunnel in Miami-Dade \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A construction worker is fighting for his life after he became trapped in an underground tunnel that flooded in Southwest Miami-Dade, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>The Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the water main ruptured at around 10:22 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>It flooded the tunnel, &#8220;trapping an adult male construction worker underwater for several minutes,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said. <\/p>\n<p>Co-workers removed the unconscious victim, started CPR and called for help from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital South Trauma Center in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what caused the water main to rupture. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Refresh for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A construction worker is fighting for his life after he became trapped in an underground tunnel that flooded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,1064],"class_list":["post-212858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212858","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=212858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}