{"id":224856,"date":"2026-04-09T13:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224856\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:53:26","slug":"9-year-old-airlifted-after-dog-bite-attack-in-englewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224856\/","title":{"rendered":"9-year-old airlifted after dog bite attack in Englewood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The child was taken to Tampa General Hospital after multiple agencies responded to an incident where a dog bit the 9-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>ENGLEWOOD, Fla. \u2014 A 9-year-old was airlifted to the hospital after getting bitten by a dog in Englewood.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with the Englewood Area Fire Control District, the Charlotte County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and Fire 7 EMS responded Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Crews made a safe landing zone for the child and airlifted them to Tampa General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Crews also comforted the child&#8217;s mother, who was on the scene, by leading a prayer with her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Moments like these remind us how powerful compassion and teamwork can be,&#8221; EAFCD wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d7060738-68e3-42a0-8042-e167e803c6dc_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The child was taken to Tampa General Hospital after multiple agencies responded to an incident where a dog&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-224856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224856","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=224856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}