{"id":402536,"date":"2026-09-17T14:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402536\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:25:06","slug":"sea-turtle-hatchlings-rescued-after-wandering-into-storm-drain-in-treasure-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402536\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea turtle hatchlings rescued after wandering into storm drain in Treasure Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A group of stranded sea turtle hatchlings were rescued after they wandered into a storm drain in Treasure Island.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid037NXeedERxkdbrTgqiUsTBBckU9bp97iCsCjyiDeRfBKaqV2hbwjXpJWEamyqrgral&amp;id=61590689103870\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid037NXeedERxkdbrTgqiUsTBBckU9bp97iCsCjyiDeRfBKaqV2hbwjXpJWEamyqrgral&amp;id=61590689103870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Treasure Island Fire Rescue<\/a> said the turtles had become disoriented on Tuesday morning and wandered into the storm drain.<\/p>\n<p>Crews recovered them and brought them to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. <\/p>\n<p>They will eventually be brought to the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis rescue is a good reminder of why it\u2019s so important for residents and businesses to keep the beach dark at night and use only sea turtle-friendly lighting. Bright or misdirected lights can disorient hatchlings and lead them away from the water, just like what happened here,\u201d Treasure Island Fire Rescue said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A group of stranded sea turtle hatchlings were rescued after they wandered into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-402536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402536","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=402536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}