{"id":437839,"date":"2026-10-25T23:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T23:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/437839\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T23:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T23:32:10","slug":"walmart-on-six-mile-cypress-shut-down-following-possible-electrical-injury-and-structure-fire-lee-county-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/437839\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart on Six Mile Cypress shut down following possible electrical injury and structure fire | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014\u00a0A person was injured by electricity at the Walmart on Six Mile Cypress Pkwy in Fort Myers, authorities say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The employee was trauma-alerted for injuries, according to the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The store was evacuated as a precaution. The Walmart is currently still closed.<\/p>\n<p>Several units responded to the incident, including medical and fire personnel. The extent of the patient&#8217;s injuries was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart sent WINK News the following statement on the incident:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts are with the contractor and their workers. We are thankful for the swift action of first responders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/WINKNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014\u00a0A person was injured by electricity at the Walmart on Six Mile Cypress Pkwy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,24165,171216,6307,28,897,113823,12678,17456,38979],"class_list":["post-437839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-companies","tag-criticism-of-walmart","tag-electricity","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-retailers","tag-retailing","tag-walmart","tag-wink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437839","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=437839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}