{"id":232695,"date":"2026-04-15T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232695\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:22:10","slug":"connecticut-man-among-2-people-who-died-from-florida-rip-current","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232695\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut man among 2 people who died from Florida rip current"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COCOA BEACH, FL (WFSB) &#8211; Two people died from being caught in a rip current in Cocoa Beach, FL, fire officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The victims were identified as a 42-year-old man from Connecticut and a 34-year-old woman from Ohio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Their names were not released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Cocoa Beach Fire Department said it responded to 4th Street South around 1 p.m. on Tuesday for a water emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Firefighters said they found four victims in the water and immediately began life-saving measures on two of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The man and woman were transported to Cape Canaveral Hospital, but were ultimately pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Firefighters said preliminary information indicated that the incident was related to rip current.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No other details were available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COCOA BEACH, FL (WFSB) &#8211; Two people died from being caught in a rip current in Cocoa Beach,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27787,103996,103997,26630,103999,103993,39758,39757,103995,28,103994,30,29,10154,104000,103998,23879,104001],"class_list":{"0":"post-232695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-cocoa-beach","9":"tag-cocoa-beach-drowning","10":"tag-cocoa-beach-fire-department","11":"tag-connecticut","12":"tag-connecticut-man-drowns-in-cocoa-beach","13":"tag-connecticut-man-drowns-in-florida","14":"tag-connecticut-news","15":"tag-ct-news","16":"tag-drowning-florida","17":"tag-florida","18":"tag-florida-drowning","19":"tag-florida-headlines","20":"tag-florida-news","21":"tag-ohio","22":"tag-ohio-woman-drowns-in-cocoa-beach","23":"tag-ohio-woman-drowns-in-florida","24":"tag-rip-current","25":"tag-rip-current-drowning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232695","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=232695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}