{"id":424271,"date":"2026-10-10T15:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424271\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:52:07","slug":"1-killed-by-fallen-tree-as-hurricane-isaias-sweeps-florida-panhandle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424271\/","title":{"rendered":"1 killed by fallen tree as Hurricane Isaias sweeps Florida Panhandle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/rover\/profile_photos\/0ef9e7e2-0673-4d77-92c5-22a1e3663de5_1697751930.file?resize=100:*\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Allison Petro\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Florida \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">One person was killed by a downed tree as Hurricane Isaias swept through Florida\u2019s Panhandle on Friday night, according to Escambia County officials. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Isaias, now a post-tropical cyclone, made landfall near Destin, Florida, as a Category 2 hurricane at 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">&gt;&gt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/power-outage-map-florida-hurricane-isaias\/74096641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Florida power outage map<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The system brought damaging winds, heavy rain, flooding and life-threatening storm surges to the region. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">A spokesperson in Escambia County confirmed one person was killed by a &#8220;downed tree.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Officials have not released details about the victim&#8217;s identity. <\/p>\n<p>Where is Isaias headed?<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">The remnants of Isaias are expected to continue moving north across Alabama and into the Tennessee Valley later Saturday and Sunday, according to the NHC.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">The system is forecast to turn north-northeast or northeast on Sunday. Slow weakening is expected Saturday, and Isaias is forecast to dissipate Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida \u2014 One person was killed by a downed tree as Hurricane Isaias swept through Florida\u2019s Panhandle on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74544,3288,167145,2927,28,30,29,12205,167146,4900,1161,166250,167147,666,6695,5125,9708,15179],"class_list":["post-424271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-damaging-wind","tag-destin","tag-escambia-county-official","tag-flooding","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-panhandle","tag-florida-power-outage-map","tag-friday-night","tag-heavy-rain","tag-hurricane-isaias","tag-life-threatening-storm","tag-person","tag-saturday","tag-sunday","tag-system","tag-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424271","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=424271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}