FORT PIERCE \u2013 A 2-year-old boy drowned in a backyard pool in a home in the 2600 block of Citrus Avenue, Fort Pierce, on June 7, according to Fort Pierce Police reports.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to the home at about 2:42 p.m., in response to a call about a possible drowning.<\/p>\n
Preliminary investigation revealed that while family members were inside the home, the 2-year-old child was able to unlock a door and leave the home unnoticed.<\/p>\n
Upon realizing the child was missing, family members began searching the property and subsequently found the child unresponsive in a swimming pool.<\/p>\n
Family members immediately began administering first aid until the arrival of Fort Pierce Police officers who began lifesaving steps, according to police reports.<\/p>\n
The child was transported to a local hospital for emergency medical treatment, but the child later succumbed to his injuries, according to police reports.<\/p>\n
The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE \u2013 A 2-year-old boy drowned in a backyard pool in a home in the 2600 block…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-301473","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","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301473","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=301473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}