{"id":271418,"date":"2026-05-14T21:41:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271418\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:41:31","slug":"elderly-landscaper-dead-after-being-shocked-by-power-line-while-picking-mangoes-in-fort-lauderdale-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271418\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly landscaper dead after being shocked by power line while picking mangoes in Fort Lauderdale &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Rescue crews rushed a landscaper to the hospital after he was shocked by a power line in a Fort Lauderdale neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, the victim, who is in his 70s, was picking ripe mangoes off a tree along the 700 block of Northeast 15th Court when the apparatus he was using made contact with a power line, Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics transported the victim, known by neighbors as Mr. Gabriel, to Broward Health Medical Center in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>FLFR later confirmed the victim succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.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":"FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Rescue crews rushed a landscaper to the hospital after he was shocked by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-271418","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\/271418","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=271418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}