{"id":445492,"date":"2026-11-02T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445492\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:14:10","slug":"st-lucie-county-declares-local-state-of-emergency-amid-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445492\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Lucie County declares local state of emergency amid flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793657649_799_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">St. Lucie County has declared a local state of emergency due to heavy rain causing widespread flooding across the area.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The county\u2019s emergency operations center is partially activated to coordinate response efforts and manage resources.  <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/8505f98d-9ae3-4a8a-850f-2d5f873d92c6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hearst OwnedWPBF 25 News<\/p>\n<p>St. Lucie County has issued a local state of emergency as heavy rain causes flooding, with officials urging residents to avoid travel and activating emergency response efforts.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/8505f98d-9ae3-4a8a-850f-2d5f873d92c6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Stay up-to-date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Officials are urging residents to stay off the roads this evening, if possible, to ensure safety.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 St. Lucie County has declared a local state of emergency due to heavy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2954,704,121800,2927,1161,6686,173403,5127,2772,171,173,172,15603,724,1402,173402,26002,221,189],"class_list":["post-445492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-area","tag-emergency","tag-emergency-operation-center","tag-flooding","tag-heavy-rain","tag-late-headline","tag-local-state","tag-news-app","tag-official","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-resource","tag-road","tag-st-lucie-county","tag-st-lucie-county-declares-local-state-of-emergency-amid-flooding","tag-up-to-date","tag-weather","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445492","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=445492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}