{"id":224242,"date":"2026-04-09T01:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224242\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T01:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:34:09","slug":"georgia-4-year-old-drowns-in-pool-while-family-vacations-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224242\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia 4-year-old drowns in pool while family vacations in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/dd367b2739d2c2d5e2b7bd3209610bdb.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Georgia child drowned in a pool while his family was on vacation over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A spokesperson for the Osceola County Sheriff\u2019s Office says they were called to a home in Kissimmee, Florida at 5 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When they arrived, they found a 4-year-old boy and rushed him to Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/smart-tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say the boy had gotten separated from his family and drowned in the community pool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Witnesses pulled the child out of the pool and started performing CPR until paramedics arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The boy\u2019s identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wsbtv.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter&quot;}\" class=\"link \">WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Georgia child drowned in a pool while his family was on vacation over the weekend. A spokesperson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,1975,29765,1554],"class_list":["post-224242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-kissimmee","tag-osceola-county-sheriffs-office","tag-pool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224242","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=224242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}