{"id":237956,"date":"2026-04-19T15:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237956\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:52:07","slug":"working-to-prevent-child-drownings-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237956\/","title":{"rendered":"Working to prevent child drownings in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers are heartbreaking: in 2025, there were 112 child drownings in the state of Florida, an increase from 106 in 2024 and 94 in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Drowning is the leading cause of unintentional death for children ages 1\u20134 in Florida, and the majority of child drownings occur in residential swimming pools.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Children with autism are 160 times more likely to drown compared to their neurotypical peers, according to the National Autism Association.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, a four-year-old with autism drowned in a pool at an AirBnB in Miami, and the parents are calling for changes to help make sure this doesn\u2019t happen to other parents.<\/p>\n<p>We discuss prevention and what state and local governments can do to help keep kids safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The numbers are heartbreaking: in 2025, there were 112 child drownings in the state of Florida, an increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4093,4996,2967,20172,20174,113,28,30,29,20173,20171,115,139,277,135,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-237956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-allison-walker","9":"tag-app-education","10":"tag-app-public-safety","11":"tag-auto-publish-manual","12":"tag-auto-publish-video","13":"tag-education","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-florida-headlines","16":"tag-florida-news","17":"tag-in-focus-segments","18":"tag-in-focus-shows","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-orlando","21":"tag-public-safety","22":"tag-tampa","23":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237956","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=237956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}