{"id":213921,"date":"2026-04-29T11:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213921\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:49:10","slug":"ten-year-old-girl-rescued-after-finger-is-stuck-in-beacon-high-school-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213921\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten-year-old girl rescued after finger is stuck in Beacon High School pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEACON \u2013 A 10-year-old Beacon student was rescued after 4 p.m. on Tuesday when her finger was trapped in a section of the school\u2019s Olympic-size swimming pool.<\/p>\n<p>Fire Chief Tomas Lucchesi said the child\u2019s finger was lodged in an approximately half-inch opening in a component of the pool structure.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters conducted an extended technical rescue operation to safely free the child while minimizing the risk of additional injury, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The pool had to be partially drained while firefighters used specialized rescue equipment to carefully cut away a portion of the pool structure.<\/p>\n<p>The child sustained minor injuries and was transported to a local hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>The Beacon Fire Department was assisted at the scene by the City of Beacon Police Department while Castle Point firefighters provided standby coverage in Beacon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-285801 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Beacon-HS-girl-stuck2-700x500-1.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-285801 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Beacon-HS-girl-stuck2-700x500-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\"  \/>Pool rescue at Beacon HS<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEACON \u2013 A 10-year-old Beacon student was rescued after 4 p.m. on Tuesday when her finger was trapped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[84420,75,84,83,9,24,63,84421],"class_list":["post-213921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-beacon-high-school","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pool-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}