{"id":251782,"date":"2026-04-16T00:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/251782\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T00:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:49:16","slug":"emergency-crews-rescue-person-trapped-inside-car-in-playa-lake-near-56th-and-bangor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/251782\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency crews rescue person trapped inside car in playa lake near 56th and Bangor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Emergency crews rescued a person trapped inside a vehicle submerged in a playa lake in southwest Lubbock Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Just before 8 a.m., dispatch received a call regarding a suicidal subject. According to LPD, the individual intentionally drove into the playa lake near 56th St. and Bangor Ave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Lubbock Fire Rescue Dive Team and LPD deployed a dive boat and a firefighter was able to break through the sunroof of the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to LFR, the individual was pulled from the vehicle with only about two inches of air left in the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The person was transported to the hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The suicide and crisis lifeline is available 24\/7. The number to call or text is 988.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more information from Texas Health and Human Services,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.texas.gov\/providers\/behavioral-health-services-providers-programs\/crisis-services\/988-suicide-crisis-lifeline-information-providers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.texas.gov\/providers\/behavioral-health-services-providers-programs\/crisis-services\/988-suicide-crisis-lifeline-information-providers\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Emergency crews rescued a person trapped inside a vehicle submerged in a playa lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[268,319,11770,95106,251,1739,168,170,169,523,10622,95107],"class_list":["post-251782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-crash","tag-kcbd","tag-lfr","tag-lfr-dive-team","tag-local-news","tag-lpd","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-police","tag-southwest-lubbock","tag-vehicle-in-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}