{"id":404602,"date":"2026-09-19T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/404602\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T13:30:10","slug":"child-woman-hospitalized-after-dog-attack-at-dania-beach-apartment-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/404602\/","title":{"rendered":"Child, woman hospitalized after dog attack at Dania Beach apartment complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 18, 2026 at 10:19 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DANIA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A young child and a woman were hospitalized after a dog attack Friday evening at a Dania Beach apartment building, according to the Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BSO deputies responded to an animal bite call around 6:30 p.m. at the Koosh Living apartments near Southwest 28th Avenue and Griffin Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The circumstances of the attack, including how many dogs were involved and the ages of the people involved, were not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said the dogs have been located. Broward County Animal Care was also called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities were working to learn the conditions of the child and woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Corey Clemson, who lives nearby, said the incident was concerning, especially as a parent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s terrible, man. I have a 3-year-old son and I know dogs sometimes, anything can happen at any moment,\u201d Clemson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Clemson said people need to be vigilant about their surroundings and avoid certain situations when possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIf you can\u2019t keep your dog away from children if they\u2019re not friendly, just do that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives remained on scene as they gathered evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Clemson said he hopes everyone involved will be OK.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Aaron Maybin\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b1f0fdcc-a947-4d3e-8210-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Aaron Maybin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Aaron came to Local 10 from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked as a weekend morning anchor and reporter at WITI-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 18, 2026 at 10:19 PM DANIA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A young child and a woman were hospitalized&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-404602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404602","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=404602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}