{"id":299853,"date":"2026-06-08T11:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299853\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:58:15","slug":"fort-lauderdale-man-dies-in-drowning-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299853\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale man dies in drowning, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Miami Herald;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Miami Herald\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2022-04\/2c007030-bc29-11ec-9eb3-6a75ebbbf0da.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Mon, June 8, 2026 at 3:58 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"651\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_miami_herald_mcclatchy_670\/2b74302ab84fd5f407ccaa57069c3c67.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A man drowned in Fort Lauderdale just after 5 a.m. on Sunday, June 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p> (Courtesy: Scott Rodgerson\/Unsplash)<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale police got a call just after 5 a.m. about a man possibly drowning off the 200 block at Southwest Second Avenue. Witnesses saw the man enter the water.<\/p>\n<p>Police worked with Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue and the Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office Aviation Unit to search the area. They found the man and Fire Rescue took him to Fort Lauderdale&#8217;s Broward Health Medical Center, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Lauderdale Police Department&#8217;s Homicide Unit is investigating the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mon, June 8, 2026 at 3:58 AM UTC A man drowned in Fort Lauderdale just after 5 a.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[53839,133,249,251,250,115520],"class_list":["post-299853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-health-medical-center","tag-fire-rescue","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-office-aviation-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299853","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=299853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}