{"id":379516,"date":"2026-08-24T06:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379516\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:34:09","slug":"mom-2-year-old-daughter-die-after-hit-by-lightning-in-florida-storm-police-say-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379516\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom, 2-year-old daughter die after hit by lightning in Florida storm, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787553249_239_default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-b993be58=\"\"\/>       <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">MARGATE, Fla. &#8211; Despite life-saving efforts from first responders Sunday, a mom and daughter died after reportedly being struck by lightning in South Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The mom and daughter died shortly after being taken to the hospital, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox35orlando.com\/news\/mom-2-year-old-daughter-die-after-being-hit-lightning-florida-storm-police-say\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Margate Police Department responded to a call around 2:30 p.m. reporting two people lying on the sidewalk in the area of 7941 NW 1st Street. Officers and Margate Fire Rescue began CPR efforts before the mom was transported to a hospital in Deerfield Beach and the daughter was taken to a hospital in Fort Lauderdale with a police escort, the department said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Despite the medical response, the daughter and mom \u2013 identified as 31-year-old Kenya Glasgow \u2013 died shortly after arriving at their respective hospitals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The department extended its sympathies to the victims&#8217; family during this difficult time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox35orlando.com\/news\/mom-2-year-old-daughter-die-after-being-hit-lightning-florida-storm-police-say\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">This incident remains under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story was gathered from the Margate Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/instastories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instastories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARGATE, Fla. &#8211; Despite life-saving efforts from first responders Sunday, a mom and daughter died after reportedly being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,28,30,29,406,115,628],"class_list":["post-379516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-instastories","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379516","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=379516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}