{"id":27773,"date":"2025-10-31T10:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/27773\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:10:07","slug":"bridge-collapse-in-eustis-neighborhood-prompts-evacuations-of-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/27773\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge collapse in Eustis neighborhood prompts evacuations of homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">EUSTIS, Fla. \u2013 A bridge partially collapsed Thursday night in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Eustis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Eustis\/\">Eustis<\/a> neighborhood, cutting off residents and prompting the evacuation of homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The collapse, which took place at Spring Ridge Estates off DeLand Road, comes days after record rainfall &#8212; up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/video\/weather\/2025\/10\/27\/19-inches-of-rain-storms-flood-central-florida-here-s-who-got-the-worst-of-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/video\/weather\/2025\/10\/27\/19-inches-of-rain-storms-flood-central-florida-here-s-who-got-the-worst-of-it\/\">19 inches in some areas<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/weather\/2025\/10\/29\/organizations-unite-to-help-lake-county-flood-victims-heres-the-info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/weather\/2025\/10\/29\/organizations-unite-to-help-lake-county-flood-victims-heres-the-info\/\">flooded portions of Central Florida<\/a>, especially in Lake and Brevard counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">[VIDEO BELOW: Flooding washes out Lake County roads]<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The bridge is the only way in or out for residents of nearly two dozen homes, who were told to leave and turn the power to their houses off because fire trucks were unable to get across the bridge, if needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Eustis police said the bridge is in danger of further collapse, so officers are guarding it to ensure no one tries to cross it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The road is maintained by the neighborhood HOA, which will meet Friday with the city to figure out how to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EUSTIS, Fla. \u2013 A bridge partially collapsed Thursday night in a Eustis neighborhood, cutting off residents and prompting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20684,14477,2927,28,30,29,1042,2174,20683,221],"class_list":["post-27773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-bridge-collapse","tag-eustis","tag-flooding","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hoa","tag-lake-county","tag-spring-ridge-estates","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773","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=27773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}