{"id":221161,"date":"2026-04-06T22:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221161\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:15:21","slug":"509-water-rescues-made-in-miami-dade-county-during-7-day-period-fire-rescue-says-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221161\/","title":{"rendered":"509 water rescues made in Miami-Dade County during 7-day period, fire rescue says \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

As parts of South Florida experience high-risk rip tides<\/a>, in the last seven days, there have been hundreds of water rescues in Miami-Dade County, fire rescue officials said. <\/p>\n

According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, there have been 509 water rescues from March 29 to April 4, with 330 of those calls involving rip currents. <\/p>\n

The following break-down of rescues made during the seven-day period includes the following: <\/p>\n

March 29: 32 water rescue incidents, 20 involving rip currents<\/p>\n

March 30: 2 water rescue incidents, both calls involving rip currents<\/p>\n

March 31: 6 water rescue incidents<\/p>\n

April 1: 10 water rescue incidents<\/p>\n

April 3: 85 water rescue incidents, 60 involving rip currents<\/p>\n

April 4: 130 water rescue incidents, 70 involving rip currents<\/p>\n

April 5: 244 water rescue incidents, 178 involving rip currents<\/p>\n

Fort Lauderdale, 54 people were rescued on Friday in 36 incidents with two being taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend there were 54 rescues. <\/p>\n

Last week, a father of three died <\/a>while saving two of his children from a rip current while vacationing in\u00a0Juno Beach, family and friends said.<\/p>\n

“It won\u2019t pull you under, it\u2019ll pull you out away from shore,” said Mitch McCrady. “What causes the situation is the panic. When you see that you\u2019re not going where you wanna go, your heart goes a little faster and then ensues the panic. The panic is what kills you. It\u2019s not an under tow. It\u2019s not gonna pull you down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lifeguards are watching closely for signs of swimmers who are in trouble.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking through the binoculars at people’s faces to see if they\u2019re stressed out or if his hair in their face, that\u2019s another sign, or if they\u2019re climbing the ladder, so you know, if I need to make a rescue or prevent,\u201d said Anthony Giuseppetti, a Lifeguard in Fort Lauderdale Beach.<\/p>\n

Lifeguards said the safest thing you can do is to check the conditions before getting in the water and always swim near a lifeguard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As parts of South Florida experience high-risk rip tides, in the last seven days, there have been hundreds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,807],"class_list":["post-221161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221161","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=221161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}