{"id":330169,"date":"2026-07-05T20:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330169\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:50:11","slug":"girl-4-dies-after-drowning-in-plantation-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330169\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 4, dies after drowning in Plantation lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 5, 2026 at 4:21 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6SJR24DUWNFAHNW2RM26P4VW54.png\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PLANTATION, Fla. \u2014 A 4-year-old girl drowned in a lake in a Plantation neighborhood on Sunday morning, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened at around 10 a.m. behind the girl\u2019s home in the 500 block of Northwest 107th Avenue, within the Westport subdivision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Plantation police <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PlantationPD\/status\/2073848660740489448\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PlantationPD\/status\/2073848660740489448\">said<\/a> the girl\u2019s father found her face-down in the lake, immediately began CPR and called 911.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Medics took the girl to Broward Health Medical Center, where doctors pronounced her dead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cBased on the information gathered thus far, investigators believe this to be a tragic accidental drowning,\u201d Plantation police said of their investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have not released the young girl\u2019s name as of Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 5, 2026 at 4:21 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand PLANTATION, Fla. \u2014 A 4-year-old girl drowned in a lake in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-330169","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\/330169","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=330169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}