{"id":430268,"date":"2026-10-17T06:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430268\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T06:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:30:37","slug":"mosquito-control-helicopter-pilot-killed-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430268\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosquito control helicopter pilot killed in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-2ea10eb1=\"\">Manatee County Mosquito Control is mourning the loss of one of their own as more is learned about the helicopter pilot killed in crash Thursday night. Federal investigators say 63-year-old Isaac &#8220;Ike&#8221; Moore was on his first mission of the night when his chopper hit a private radio tower and crashed in a backyard in a rural area of Myakka City. FOX 13&#8217;s Kimberly Kuizon reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0October 16, 2026 5:20pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manatee County Mosquito Control is mourning the loss of one of their own as more is learned about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-430268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430268","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=430268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}