{"id":265262,"date":"2026-05-10T00:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/265262\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T00:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:39:07","slug":"at-least-11-people-sent-to-hospital-after-suspected-boat-explosion-in-miami-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/265262\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 11 people sent to hospital after suspected boat explosion in Miami | Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A suspected boat explosion at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/miami\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami<\/a> sandbar sent at least 11 people to the hospital on Saturday with some suffering from burns and traumatic injuries, according to Juan Arias, the Miami Dade fire rescue battalion chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">First responders received reports roughly around 12.45pm of a possible boat explosion on the water, Arias <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBS12\/status\/2053230477729780098\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow\">told<\/a> WPEC 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It is unclear what caused the blast, which occurred onboard a charter boat with about 14 people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/video\/nbc-6-news\/11-people-hospitalized-after-possible-boat-explosion-at-haulover-beach-fire-rescue-says\/3807117\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to<\/a> NBC 6 South Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> fish and wildlife conservation commission is investigating the incident, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Haulover Sandbar beckons hundreds of spring breakers and other vacation-oriented visitors every year. Located in shallow waters, the sandbar has been a boating mecca. Kayakers also regularly descend upon the strip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Patrick Lee, a local businessman, was driving people onboard his boat to another vessel on the water during the blast, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/miami-dade\/miami-beach\/article315697198.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> the Miami Herald.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWhen we looked back out, we saw three people flying off the boat in a puff of smoke,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspected boat explosion at a Miami sandbar sent at least 11 people to the hospital on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-265262","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\/265262","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=265262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}