{"id":333523,"date":"2026-07-08T20:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333523\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:32:07","slug":"tallahassee-firefighters-respond-to-crash-landing-near-cascade-lake-north-of-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333523\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee firefighters respond to crash-landing near Cascade Lake north of airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; A private aircraft with a single occupant made a crash-landing near Cascade Lake north of Tallahassee International Airport property Tuesday morning, prompting an Alert III aircraft emergency response.<\/p>\n<p>At about 11:49 a.m. on July 8, the Tallahassee Fire Department responded to the incident. Airport Rescue and Firefighting crews and Tallahassee Fire Department Station 4 personnel arrived to find a downed aircraft with one occupant.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters treated the patient at the scene, and Leon County EMS transported the person for further evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Tallahassee Fire Department hazmat personnel began fuel containment operations after identifying fuel leaking onto the aircraft\u2019s wings. Crews also searched the aircraft to confirm no additional occupants were inside.<\/p>\n<p>The Tallahassee Police Department, Leon County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Leon County EMS, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection were assisting at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; A private aircraft with a single occupant made a crash-landing near Cascade Lake north of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-333523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333523","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=333523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}