{"id":218143,"date":"2026-04-04T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218143\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:32:08","slug":"officials-rescue-over-2-dozen-people-including-children-from-broward-beaches-due-to-dangerous-rip-currents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218143\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials rescue over 2 dozen people, including children, from Broward beaches due to dangerous rip currents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rough seas and dangerous rip currents led to a high volume of beach rescues on Friday, with 29 people pulled from the water in Fort Lauderdale and another nine in Pompano Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Seven of the rescues occurred at one location, including a father and his 6- or 7-year-old son. Everyone involved was safely brought out of the water, though four of the seven victims were taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Barnum, one of the people on shore who raced to the rescue, described the exhaustion of one of the victims, the father.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was pretty exhausted. He was on his last leg. That was the father, of course. He was in there longer. He was pooped to say the least,&#8221; Barnum said.<\/p>\n<p>Barnum was aided in the rescue by a kite surfer who had a vest and charged into the water. &#8220;He was over there, and he had a vest. He went out and got them. We went out and met him and helped bring them in,&#8221; Barnum said.<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Mark Beaudreau from Pompano Beach Ocean Rescue said it was a particularly demanding day for responders, noting they also performed two more rescues in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s one of those days where everyone is sitting on the edge of their seats,&#8221; Beaudreau said.<\/p>\n<p>Beaudreau also explained what to do if caught in a rip current: &#8220;They want to swim out of the rip current, then in to shore. Swim parallel to shore, then in to shore,&#8221; he advised. Authorities also suggest swimming near a lifeguard station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rough seas and dangerous rip currents led to a high volume of beach rescues on Friday, with 29&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,249,251,250,8928,1201,17055,8919],"class_list":["post-218143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-pompano-beach","tag-rip-currents","tag-water-rescues","tag-water-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218143","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=218143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}