{"id":399893,"date":"2026-09-14T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399893\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:18:09","slug":"recovery-mission-underway-after-equipment-sinks-off-sr-82-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399893\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovery mission underway after equipment sinks off SR 82 | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A woman is dead after heavy equipment went underwater at a construction site in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating what happened in the 21000 block of State Road 82, where crews found heavy equipment submerged in water.<\/p>\n

Fire crews confirmed someone was inside the vehicle when it went under. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said the woman’s body has since been recovered.<\/p>\n

It is unclear how long the equipment had been underwater before crews arrived.<\/p>\n

The Mine Safety and Health Administration is also on scene and conducting its own investigation.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned to WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A woman is dead after heavy equipment went underwater at a construction site…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,104596,7692,23591],"class_list":["post-399893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida","tag-florida-state-road-82","tag-lee-county-sheriff","tag-lehigh-acres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399893","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=399893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}