{"id":386811,"date":"2026-09-01T04:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386811\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T04:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:22:09","slug":"man-on-personal-watercraft-dies-after-being-struck-by-lightning-authorities-say-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386811\/","title":{"rendered":"Man on personal watercraft dies after being struck by lightning, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WTSP) \u2013 A Utah man died Saturday after he was struck by lightning in Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a GoFundMe page, Steve Matheson was riding a personal watercraft off the coast of St. Petersburg when he was struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities in Pinellas County said Matheson was initially taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WTSP via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WTSP) \u2013 A Utah man died Saturday after he was struck by lightning in Florida.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[77897,154865,9662,70894,202,204,203,199,201,200,17919,13949],"class_list":["post-386811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-jet","tag-kawasaki","tag-lightning","tag-ski","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-strike","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386811","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=386811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}