{"id":325023,"date":"2026-06-30T19:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325023\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:34:07","slug":"child-ok-after-being-pulled-out-of-pool-in-fort-lauderdale-police-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325023\/","title":{"rendered":"Child OK after being pulled out of pool in Fort Lauderdale, police say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A child was taken to the hospital after they were found in a pool in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday, police said.<\/p>\n

According to Fort Lauderdale Police, officers received a call about a child drowning in a pool in the 900 block of Southwest 27th Avenue.<\/p>\n

Once officers arrived, the child, who is between 8 and 12 years old, was conscious, breathing and was being treated by a lifeguard.<\/p>\n

Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue said staff at Riverland Park performed CPR on the child, and he spat out water and was breathing by the time officers arrived.<\/p>\n

On his way to the Broward Health Medical Center, the boy was alert and talking, fire rescue said.<\/p>\n

In the last few days, there have been several incidents of near-drownings and drownings in South Florida.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, a 4-year-old <\/a>was taken to the hospital after they fell into a pool in Sunrise, police said.<\/p>\n

There was also a drowning in Southwest Miami-Dade<\/a> after a 14-year-old boy was swimming in a lake. A few hours after that incident, another 14-year-old was taken to the hospital in critical condition after nearly drowning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A child was taken to the hospital after they were found in a pool in Fort Lauderdale on…\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-325023","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\/325023","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=325023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325023\/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=325023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}