{"id":379770,"date":"2026-08-24T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379770\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:30:09","slug":"lightning-kills-mother-her-2-year-old-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379770\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning kills mother, her 2-year-old daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARGATE, Fla. (WKRC) \u2014 A mother and her 2-year-old daughter are dead after being struck by lightning in Florida Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/florida\/mother-2-year-old-daughter-killed-by-lightning-strike-in-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports WFLA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Margate Police Department said emergency crews were called to NW 1st Street around 2:30 p.m., where they found the two victims lying on the sidewalk. The woman, identified as 31-year-old Kenya Glasgow was taken to Broward Medical Center in Deerfield Beach, while her toddler was transported to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p>Police said despite lifesaving efforts, both Glasgow and her daughter were pronounced dead at the hospitals. The department says it&#8217;s investigating the incident. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Margate Police Department extends its deepest condolences to the victims&#8217; family and loved ones during this incredibly difficult time,&#8221; the department said in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARGATE, Fla. (WKRC) \u2014 A mother and her 2-year-old daughter are dead after being struck by lightning in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-379770","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\/379770","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=379770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}