{"id":388881,"date":"2026-09-03T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388881\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:22:11","slug":"2-hospitalized-after-reported-lightning-strike-along-west-orange-trail-in-winter-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388881\/","title":{"rendered":"2 hospitalized after reported lightning strike along West Orange Trail in Winter Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-b05d485a=\"\"\/>       <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">WINTER GARDEN, Fla. &#8211; Two people were taken to a hospital as trauma alerts after authorities responded to a reported lightning strike Wednesday evening in Winter Garden.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Orange County Fire Rescue said crews assisted Winter Garden Fire Rescue with a medical emergency on the West Orange Trail near Plant Street at about 7:22 p.m.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/wofl-winter-garden-west-orange-trail-lightning-strike2.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/wofl-winter-garden-west-orange-trail-lightning-strike1.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The two people, described by authorities as a husband and wife in their 40s, were transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/slot0-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FOX 35 Storm Tracker Radar detected a lightning strike in the area at 7:13 p.m. The strike was recorded close to the trail between Lakeview and Brayton roads.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials have not confirmed whether the two were directly struck by lightning or otherwise injured during the incident. Their conditions were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FOX 35 News has a crew at the scene gathering additional information. This is a developing story. Check back for updates here and on <a href=\"https:\/\/fox35orlando.com\/live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FOX Local Orlando<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written based on information shared by Orange County Fire Rescue and Winter Garden Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\/winter-garden\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Garden<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINTER GARDEN, Fla. &#8211; Two people were taken to a hospital as trauma alerts after authorities responded to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47,115,1335,139,141,140,628,25863],"class_list":["post-388881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us","tag-winter-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388881","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=388881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}