{"id":42560,"date":"2025-11-11T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/42560\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:00:09","slug":"christian-missionary-father-daughter-died-when-plane-bound-for-jamaica-crashed-in-coral-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/42560\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian missionary father, daughter died when plane bound for Jamaica crashed in Coral Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Christian missionary father and his daughter were killed when a small plane bound for a hurricane relief mission in Jamaica\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/florida-plane-crash-relief-jamaica-melissa-0bdf3c3ae07e0f8b852460fc66ddb5ff\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">crashed in a South Florida neighborhood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christian ministry organization Ignite the Fire identified the two victims of the Monday morning crash as the group\u2019s founder, Alexander Wurm, 53, and his daughter Serena Wurm, 22.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pair were bringing humanitarian aid to Jamaica, according to the organization, when the Beechcraft King Air plane they were flying in crashed into a pond in a residential area of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs, narrowly missing homes. As of Tuesday morning, investigators had not reported any other victims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ignite the Fire is \u201cdedicated to empowering youth through missions and evangelism across the Caribbean,\u201d according to the organization\u2019s website. A statement on the group\u2019s social media described the Wurm family as passionate about humanitarian work and their Christian faith.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTogether, their final journey embodied selflessness and courage, reminding us of the power of service and love,\u201d the statement reads, adding, \u201cRest in peace, Alexander and Serena \u2014 your light endures in all whose lives you changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The turboprop plane went down shortly after taking off from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport at approximately 10:14 a.m. on Monday, authorities said, with police and fire rescue responding to the crash site just five minutes later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Broward County, where the plane took off from and where the crash occurred, is home to a vibrant Caribbean American community that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-melissa-storm-relief-florida-new-york-956063b46ba477b23bdfbe8785699a0b\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">sprang into action<\/a>\u00a0to collect relief supplies following Hurricane Melissa, which left a path of destruction in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A powerful Category 5 storm, Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Oct. 28 and tied for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-melissa-strongest-storms-atlantic-6894a55f21f7d306a199ce0ce2f8acde\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane<\/a>\u00a0in history. The storm also caused devastation in Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic and prompted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-where-to-donate-cuba-haiti-red-cross-67f2e4b033d5339fcbe0ec98a719c192\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">relief organizations<\/a>\u00a0to mobilize.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">___<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Republished with permission of The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Christian missionary father and his daughter were killed when a small plane bound for a hurricane relief&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[28074,506,4555,249,251,250,12864,12146,28075],"class_list":["post-42560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-alexander-wurm","tag-broward-county","tag-coral-springs","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-hurricane-melissa","tag-jamaica","tag-serena-wurm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42560","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=42560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}