{"id":285255,"date":"2026-05-26T21:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285255\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:40:07","slug":"1-year-old-drowns-in-backyard-pool-in-indian-river-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285255\/","title":{"rendered":"1-Year-Old drowns in backyard pool in Indian River County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Deputies say a one-year-old drowned Tuesday afternoon after a family member found them submerged in a South Indian River County backyard pool.<\/p>\n<p>First responders, including the<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/search?find=Indian+River+County+Sheriff%27s+Office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Indian River County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a>, reportedly arrived at the scene at 4:30 p.m. and rushed the toddler to Lawnwood Regional Hospital, where they later died.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the child and the circumstances around the drowning have not been confirmed at this time.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/fhp-border-patrol-agents-tried-to-stop-wrong-way-driver-before-fatal-martin-county-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Palm Beach career criminal identified in deadly 16-mile wrong-way rampage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This store is developing. CBS12 will provide more information as it is made available.<\/p>\n<p>Port St. Lucie Police Department aided in the law enforcement response. The investigation is open at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Deputies say a one-year-old drowned Tuesday afternoon after a family member found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-285255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285255","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=285255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}