{"id":380756,"date":"2026-08-25T15:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380756\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:46:22","slug":"lightning-strike-kills-mother-and-daughter-in-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380756\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strike kills mother and daughter in South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning strike kills mother and daughter in South Florida<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787672781_923_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Danielle Scruggs\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787672782_551_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>MARGATE, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A mother and daughter were killed by a lightning strike Sunday in Broward County. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Police in Margate said they found the two lying in the middle of the sidewalk.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">They later died at the hospital, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Their names and ages have not been released at this time.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">This is a developing story and will be updated as information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Stay up-to-date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightning strike kills mother and daughter in South Florida MARGATE, Fla. \u2014 A mother and daughter were killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4204,506,17444,5078,6686,90029,28453,1961,5127,132,171,173,172,807,26002,221,189,28711],"class_list":["post-380756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-authority","tag-broward-county","tag-daughter","tag-hospital","tag-late-headline","tag-lightning-strike","tag-margate","tag-mother","tag-news-app","tag-police","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-south-florida","tag-up-to-date","tag-weather","tag-wpbf","tag-yesterday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380756","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=380756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}