{"id":232658,"date":"2026-04-15T12:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232658\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:45:22","slug":"connecticut-man-among-2-who-drowned-in-rip-current-at-florida-beach-firefighters-nbc-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232658\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut man among 2 who drowned in rip current at Florida beach: Firefighters \u2013 NBC Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Connecticut man and an Ohio woman drowned in a rip current off a Florida beach on Tuesday afternoon, firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p>The Cocoa Beach Fire Department responded around 1 p.m. to 4th Street South for a reported water rescue involving multiple people, according to firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>When crews arrived, they found four people in the water and began lifesaving measures for the 42-year-old man from Connecticut and the 34-year-old woman from Ohio. They were both transported to Cape Canaveral Hospital, where they were pronounced dead, firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters did not share the names either person who drowned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Preliminary information indicates the incident was related to a rip current,&#8221; firefighters wrote in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were immediately provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Connecticut man and an Ohio woman drowned in a rip current off a Florida beach on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-232658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232658","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=232658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}