{"id":2320,"date":"2025-10-14T12:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2320\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:38:14","slug":"3-year-old-drowns-at-port-st-lucie-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2320\/","title":{"rendered":"3-year-old drowns at Port St. Lucie home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">A 3-year-old child drowned Friday night, according to Port St. Lucie Police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a release from the department, police received a call around 7:30 p.m. about a drowning in the 2200 block of SW Edison Circle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to police, the child\u2019s father was feeding a 3-month-old in the home and went to put the infant to sleep. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When the father went back to the kitchen, he saw the 3-year-old floating in the pool and a 4-year-old on the back patio, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The father jumped into the pool and then performed CPR on the child. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The child was taken to Tradition Medical Center and was pronounced dead at the hospital at 8:11 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said the pool had a safety barrier around it, but it is unknown how the 3-year-old was able to surpass the barrier and make it into the pool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is a developing story. Stay with WFLX for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 3-year-old child drowned Friday night, according to Port St. Lucie Police. In a release from the department,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-2320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","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=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}