{"id":385563,"date":"2026-08-30T21:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T21:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385563\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T21:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T21:46:15","slug":"man-dead-after-being-struck-by-lightning-while-jet-skiing-near-fort-de-soto-pcso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385563\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead after being struck by lightning while jet skiing near Fort De Soto: PCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">TIERRA VERDE, Fla. &#8211; A man died after he was struck by lightning while jet skiing near Fort De Soto on Saturday evening, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pinellas County<\/a> Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p> Pinellas jet ski lightning strike   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Deputies responded to the area shortly after 6:30 p.m. after receiving a report that a man riding a jet ski had been struck by lightning, PCSO said.<\/p>\n<p>  Incident details <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The man was taken to a hospital in the area for treatment. His condition was described as life-threatening, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office. PCSO said he was pronounced dead at the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities have not released additional information about the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinellas County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TIERRA VERDE, Fla. &#8211; A man died after he was struck by lightning while jet skiing near Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-385563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385563","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=385563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}