{"id":335208,"date":"2026-07-10T02:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335208\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:07:09","slug":"2-year-old-dies-after-being-found-in-lake-behind-plantation-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335208\/","title":{"rendered":"2-year-old dies after being found in lake behind Plantation home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 9, 2026 at 9:09 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PLANTATION, Fla. \u2014 A 2-year-old boy died Thursday after he was found unresponsive in a lake behind a Plantation home, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers responded around 5:35 p.m. to a report of a missing child at a home in the 1600 block of Northwest 108th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">While officers were on the way, a family member found the child unresponsive in the lake behind the residence, pulled him from the water and immediately began CPR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Plantation police officers arrived within minutes and took over lifesaving efforts until Plantation Fire Rescue arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The child was taken to Broward Health, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Plantation police detectives are actively investigating the incident.<\/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=\"Terrell Forney\" 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\/7b28e33c-d75f-4d1a-87.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Terrell Forney<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Terrell Forney joined Local 10 News in October 2005 as a general assignment reporter. He was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, but a desire to escape the harsh winters of the north brought him to South Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 9, 2026 at 9:09 PM PLANTATION, Fla. \u2014 A 2-year-old boy died Thursday after he was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-335208","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\/335208","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=335208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}