{"id":288166,"date":"2026-07-06T16:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288166\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:06:22","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-6-year-old-brooklyn-girl-drowns-during-fourth-of-july-family-beach-outing-in-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288166\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 6 Year Old Brooklyn Girl Drowns During Fourth Of July Family Beach Outing In Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 6-year-old girl is dead after an apparent drowning on the Fourth of July in Southampton, according to Southampton Town police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say Kiara Paolasin, of Brooklyn, was at the beach with family early Saturday morning when she entered the water to retrieve a piece of footwear that was drifting away.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She then apparently slipped and was swept into Great Peconic Bay by the strong current flowing through Sebonac Creek.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 16-year-old family member tried to rescue her but was unable because of the powerful current.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The family then alerted a nearby kayaker, who paddled to the girl and pulled her unresponsive body from the water.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officers arrived at the scene around the same time and rushed to the shoreline as the kayaker brought the girl back to land. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police immediately began CPR, and EMS personnel continued attempting to resuscitate the girl.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Kiara was transported to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 6-year-old girl is dead after an apparent drowning on the Fourth of July in Southampton, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-288166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288166","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=288166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}