{"id":254455,"date":"2026-05-01T20:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254455\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:29:09","slug":"2-officers-off-duty-firefighter-rescue-elderly-woman-after-crashing-into-canal-in-pompano-beach-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254455\/","title":{"rendered":"2 officers, off-duty firefighter rescue elderly woman after crashing into canal in Pompano Beach &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POMPANO BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; First responders came to the rescue of a driver involved in a canal crash.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, the crash happened near South Palm Aire Drive in Pompano Beach, Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the driver, an elderly woman, accidentally hit the gas and crashed through a fence before landing in the canal.<\/p>\n<p>Two officers and an off-duty Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue captain jumped in to pull her out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw one deputy jumping in the water, so took my clothes off, jumped in the water, followed him. Another deputy came in with me and broke the window, and then we were able to get the elderly female out of the vehicle and the swimmer back to shore,\u201d said FLFR Captain Keith Costa.<\/p>\n<p>One deputy suffered minor injuries during the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The driver is expected to be OK.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POMPANO BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; First responders came to the rescue of a driver involved in a canal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-254455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254455","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=254455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}