{"id":331632,"date":"2026-07-07T10:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331632\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T10:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:51:59","slug":"tree-fall-kills-one-in-zephyrhills-lightning-strike-critically-injures-person-in-dade-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331632\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree fall kills one in Zephyrhills; lightning strike critically injures person in Dade City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) -\u2014 A tree fell on a home in Zephyrhills, north of Tampa on Monday, killing one person inside, according to the Florida Division of Emergency Management. A separate lightning strike in Dade City left one person critically injured and sent a second to the hospital as a precaution the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Zephyrhills tree fall<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The tree struck a residence approximately four miles east-southeast of Wesley Chapel in Pasco County, killing one person inside. No additional details about the victim or the circumstances of the incident were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A late afternoon thunderstorm blows over a tree in Pasco County on Monday killing one in a home\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/MBOD7RHHAZEHFJMRYNP72IYGXQ.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>A late afternoon thunderstorm blows over a tree in Pasco County on Monday killing one in a home(WWSB)Dade City lightning strike<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In Dade City, a lightning strike left one person critically injured. That person was transported to the hospital. A second person who was standing nearby was also taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The lightning strike occurred approximately one mile north-northeast of Saint Leo in Pasco County.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"The lightning strike occurred just before 5 p.m. Monday evening\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LFKCO5YEZZBKFMNV3VMXKJ6SDI.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>The lightning strike occurred just before 5 p.m. Monday evening(WWSB)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No additional details about the victims or the exact location of the strike were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) -\u2014 A tree fell on a home in Zephyrhills, north of Tampa on Monday, killing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9662,136877,1338,135,137,136,136878],"class_list":["post-331632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-lightning","tag-one-person-dead","tag-pasco-county","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tree-falls-on-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331632","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=331632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}