{"id":341797,"date":"2026-09-09T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341797\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:48:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-nyc-issues-alert-for-life-threatening-rip-currents-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341797\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Nyc Issues Alert For Life Threatening Rip Currents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Office of Emergency Management has issued an alert for life-threatening rip currents in New York City.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say all people entering the surf zone are likely to encounter the currents from 6 p.m. Wednesday to 8 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The agency urges people to refrain from swimming at red-flagged beaches where a lifeguard is not present.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They also remind the public that rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore and into deeper water.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Individuals who find themselves caught in a rip current should always avoid swimming against it. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say the best methods to escape are floating until the current calms or swimming parallel to the shoreline.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">For the latest on rip current risks, <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/beach\/forecast?site=okx&amp;action=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Office of Emergency Management has issued an alert for life-threatening rip currents in New York City. Officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-341797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341797","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=341797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}