{"id":297167,"date":"2026-06-05T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297167\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:27:10","slug":"worker-electrocuted-by-power-pole-in-cape-coral-section-of-burnt-store-rd-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297167\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker electrocuted by power pole in Cape Coral; section of Burnt Store Rd shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worker electrocuted by power pole in Cape Coral; section of Burnt Store Rd shut down<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f3bd3e42-d73f-4622-913f-4ae7ff0ba91d_1769629740.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Carson Zorn\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A worker was electrocuted while working on a power pole along Burnt Store Road and Janis Road in Cape Coral Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">According to the Cape Coral Police Department, Burnt Store Road is shut down at Janis Road to allow a medical flight helicopter to land to transport the worker to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">At this time, the worker&#8217;s condition is unknown.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worker electrocuted by power pole in Cape Coral; section of Burnt Store Rd shut down CAPE CORAL, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,125149,211,210,2336,94956,1793,88176],"class_list":["post-297167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-gym","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-car-crash","tag-front-door","tag-injury","tag-wbbh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297167","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=297167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}