{"id":265129,"date":"2026-05-09T21:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/265129\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:19:20","slug":"potential-boat-explosion-injures-15-people-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/265129\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential boat explosion injures 15 people in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A possible boat explosion near Florida&#8217;s Haulover Sandbar injured at least 15 people Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>MIAMI \u2014 At least 15 people were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.10tv.com\/health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">hurt <\/a>by a possible boat explosion in Florida on Saturday, reports say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened near popular tourist attraction Haulover Sandbar around 12:30 p.m. ET, according to the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. At least 25 units responded to the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still unclear what caused the injuries, but 15 people were taken to the hospital, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/boat-explosion-miami-beach-rcna344365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NBC News<\/a> reported. The ages of those hurt are also unknown at this time, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/miami-dade\/miami-beach\/article315697198.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Miami Herald<\/a> reported at least one child was hurt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Local outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/09\/mdfr-multiple-people-treated-after-possible-boat-explosion-reported-off-haulover-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">WPLG\u00a0<\/a>reported a boat captain suspected the explosion occurred because of a gas leak. He told the outlet it happened on startup and called it the &#8220;scariest moment&#8221; of his life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the explosion is under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Haulover Sandbar, off the coast of North Miami, is a shallow boating area and tourist destination where many parties take place.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A possible boat explosion near Florida&#8217;s Haulover Sandbar injured at least 15 people Saturday. MIAMI \u2014 At least&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-265129","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\/265129","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=265129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}