{"id":308351,"date":"2026-07-29T04:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308351\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:24:12","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-city-officials-warn-beachgoers-about-life-threatening-rip-currents-during-severe-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308351\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | City Officials Warn Beachgoers About Life Threatening Rip Currents During Severe Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The city says Tuesday\u2019s severe weather could bring dangerous rip currents along beaches.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials asked people to stay out of the water if lifeguards are not on duty and if they see red flags posted.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Experts said life-threatening rip currents are likely for everyone entering the surf zone until 9 p.m. on Wednesday, and rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away into deeper water.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWith these kinds of storm conditions, winds, we can have major rip current issues,\u201d said Christina Farrell, commissioner of NYC Emergency Management. \u201cI know that there were some saves, thankfully, over the weekend; but we don\u2019t want any tragedies. So, once the lifeguards go home, it\u2019s really time to get out of the water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Experts said if you\u2019re caught in a rip current, do not swim against the current. Instead, relax and float, or if possible, swim parallel to the shoreline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city says Tuesday\u2019s severe weather could bring dangerous rip currents along beaches. Officials asked people to stay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-308351","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\/308351","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=308351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}