{"id":338845,"date":"2026-07-13T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338845\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:23:10","slug":"boys-condition-remains-very-grave-in-broward-after-video-shows-him-underwater-for-15-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338845\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy\u2019s condition remains \u2018very grave\u2019 in Broward after video shows him underwater for 15 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 13, 2026 at 11:38 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Video shows a 2-year-old boy underwater for about 15 minutes before his rescue from a house pool on Sunday morning in North Lauderdale, according to a city official. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/13\/nino-permanece-en-estado-muy-grave-tras-15-minutos-bajo-el-agua\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/13\/nino-permanece-en-estado-muy-grave-tras-15-minutos-bajo-el-agua\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mike Sargis, the city of North Lauderdale manager, said a Ring surveillance camera recorded the video at a house along Pebble Beach Road, near McNab Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe family started CPR,\u201d Sargis wrote in a statement on Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue personnel and BSO deputies responded to the house pool at about 10:30 a.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/12\/child-hospitalized-after-being-pulled-from-north-lauderdale-pool\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/12\/child-hospitalized-after-being-pulled-from-north-lauderdale-pool\/\">on Sunday<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The toddler was at the Broward Health Medical Center, and his condition was critical, according to Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe last we heard, the child was in very grave condition,\u201d Sargis wrote in the statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At least three children have drowned this summer in Broward County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/09\/2-year-old-dies-after-being-found-in-lake-behind-plantation-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/09\/2-year-old-dies-after-being-found-in-lake-behind-plantation-home\/\">2-year-old boy<\/a> drowned on July 12 in a lake in Plantation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nearby, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/05\/girl-4-dies-after-drowning-in-plantation-lake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/05\/girl-4-dies-after-drowning-in-plantation-lake\/\">4-year-old girl<\/a> drowned on July 5 in a lake in Plantation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/19\/child-hospitalized-after-being-pulled-from-pool-in-north-lauderdale-first-responders-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/19\/child-hospitalized-after-being-pulled-from-pool-in-north-lauderdale-first-responders-say\/\">4-year-old boy<\/a> drowned on June 19 in a pool in North Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Florida Department of Health in Broward County has a voucher program to cover the cost of lessons for children as young as babies and as old as 17. For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/watersmartbroward.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/watersmartbroward.org\/\">visit this page<\/a>. <\/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=\"Jeff  Derderian \" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/MSLA5GVTO5AXZLY4CC5BTN7M.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jeff Derderian <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jeff Derderian is an Emmy Award-winning reporter with more than two decades of experience uncovering the truth and holding the powerful accountable. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" 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\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 13, 2026 at 11:38 AM Updated:\u00a0July 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM Video shows a 2-year-old boy underwater&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-338845","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\/338845","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=338845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}