{"id":352205,"date":"2026-07-25T14:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352205\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:29:07","slug":"cape-coral-removes-giant-250-foot-flag-for-urgent-repairs-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352205\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral removes giant 250-foot flag for urgent repairs | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014 The City of Cape Coral says it temporarily removed its 250-foot flag after staff identified a potential issue.<\/p>\n<p>What initially appeared to be a leader line concern was later identified as an issue with an eyelet on the flag. City officials said they understand the community&#8217;s frustration and are committed to getting the flag back up as quickly and safely as possible.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/cape-coral-celebrates-july-4th-with-big-fireworks-and-big-new-flag\/video_0496a426-4a3b-5e9a-9417-7abdb60ce99c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cape Coral celebrates July 4th with big fireworks and a big new flag<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The city says the flag was removed in accordance with the U.S. Flag Code so staff could fully assess the situation and coordinate with the manufacturer. Officials say they&#8217;re actively working with the manufacturer to evaluate the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The current flag will either be repaired or replaced. The original contract includes two flags, and a replacement is already on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014 The City of Cape Coral says it temporarily removed its 250-foot flag after staff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28],"class_list":["post-352205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352205","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=352205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}