{"id":241751,"date":"2026-07-12T18:50:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241751\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:50:01","slug":"missing-childs-body-recovered-from-lake-erie-cleveland-fire-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241751\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing child&#8217;s body recovered from Lake Erie, Cleveland fire department says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The body of a child who reportedly went missing near a dock on <a data-ylk=\"slk:Lake Erie in Cleveland;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyc.com\/local\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Erie in Cleveland<\/a> Saturday evening was recovered from the water, officials said Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to a Cleveland Division of Fire spokesperson, the boy&#8217;s body was recovered by members of the Cleveland Metroparks Dive Team. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is assisting with the transportation of the body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Sunday morning, a spokesperson for the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed to 3News Sunday morning that the response had shifted to a recovery mission. The Coast Guard left the scene Sunday morning and turned the search over to Cleveland authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Per the Cleveland fire department, crews responded Saturday night to a report of a child in the water at a marina located at 5555 N. Marginal Rd., which prompted a fire boat to scan the area and make multiple passes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two divers were also deployed. A Cleveland police helicopter, boat and drone units were on scene assisting in the search, along with other local public safety departments, according to the Cleveland Division of Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The search operation was called off Saturday night and crews resumed the search Sunday morning, the Cleveland Fire Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a child who reportedly went missing near a dock on Lake Erie in Cleveland Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[76,103703,136,138,137,72741,15123],"class_list":["post-241751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-fire-department","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-ohio-department-of-natural-resources","tag-sunday-morning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}