FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Multiple law enforcement agencies are on scene conducting a search for a person presumed to be in the water.<\/p>\n
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission<\/a>, the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>, and the United States Coast Guard<\/a> are on scene, combing the waters near Carlos Pointe for a person believed to have called for help while in the ocean.<\/p>\n WINK News contacted the law enforcement agencies for more information regarding this scene. Lee County deputies say they are on a call where a person on the beach thought they heard someone yelling for help, and Marine, Aviation, and ground deputies are on scene, saturating the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n Coast Guard responded with \u201c(A) Search is still underway. Aviation is responding, and there are divers in the water.\u201d<\/p>\n FWC officials added that the report was from someone on the beach reporting someone in the water who went under and did not come back up; however, they believe they have not substantiated that someone is missing and are treating it as if someone is, just in case.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n WINK News reporter Brinkley Hill is on the scene gathering information and providing updates whenever they become available.\u00a0<\/p>\n Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Multiple law enforcement agencies are on scene conducting a search for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-310738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310738","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=310738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}