{"id":299248,"date":"2026-06-07T16:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299248\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:07:09","slug":"investigation-underway-after-man-drowns-in-fort-lauderdale-police-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299248\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway after man drowns in Fort Lauderdale, police say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A death investigation is underway on Sunday after a man drowned in Fort Lauderdale, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fort Lauderdale Police, they received a call at around 5:07 a.m., about a possible drowning in the 200 block of Southwest Second Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Officers spoke to several witnesses who said they saw a man entering the water.<\/p>\n<p>Police and fire rescue then worked together, as well as the Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office aviation unit, to search the area.<\/p>\n<p>During their search, the man was found, and he was taken to the Broward Health Medical Center, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>The man&#8217;s identity was not released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A death investigation is underway on Sunday after a man drowned in Fort Lauderdale, police said. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-299248","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\/299248","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=299248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}