{"id":399371,"date":"2026-09-14T11:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399371\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:36:06","slug":"authorities-respond-to-child-drowning-in-cape-coral-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399371\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities respond to child drowning in Cape Coral | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Firefighters responded to a possible drowning at a Cape Coral home on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A child was pulled from the water at a home near Hancock Bridge Parkway and NE 8hh Place. WINK News spoke with neighbors who saw the large police and fire response and knew something was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My first thought was, with all the cop cars, it had maybe been domestic violence. I wasn&#8217;t sure, but I knew it had to be something bad for the amount of cop cars,&#8221; said Yvonne Torres, who lives next door.<\/p>\n<p>Torres said there were two fire trucks, an ambulance and six to eight police cars lined up along the road. As she watched first responders moving toward the water, she started to realize what may have happened, especially with so many children usually playing around the neighborhood and near the canal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I figured it had to be something to do with the water after because I noticed there was cops coming. They kept going back and then forth, back and forth. So I figured it had to be something to do with the water. I thought maybe someone drowned,&#8221; Torres said.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral Fire told WINK News that the police department is leading the investigation. The condition of the child remains unknown at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Firefighters responded to a possible drowning at a Cape Coral home on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[33752,209,5681,211,210,7561,2805,28,38979],"class_list":["post-399371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-fire-department","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-coral","tag-drowning","tag-florida","tag-wink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399371","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=399371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}