{"id":307326,"date":"2026-05-24T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/307326\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:38:08","slug":"popular-texas-hill-country-lake-closes-after-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/307326\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Texas Hill Country lake closes after drowning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in\u00a0Boerne are responding to a drowning at Boerne City Lake, a popular Texas Hill Country destination near San Antonio. The City of Boerne posted about the drowning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BoerneCityHall\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">on Facebook<\/a> around 3:45 p.m. on Sunday, May 24.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Boerne Fire Department and Boerne Police Department are responding to a drowning at Boerne City Lake. Please avoid the area until further notice,&#8221; the city wrote in its post.<\/p>\n<p>The city stated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/myboernenews.com\/boerne-fire-department-investigating-drowning-at-boerne-city-lake\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSAR6pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFCRHNlMHVHWllLZ051eTJGc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqQQKeUbCXErI1ylkn5dEPwOg4DkTHXBUg46NKT1Y4pJAHeUPbH3IlgvtvXt_aem_5MggxMzkNlcd5fEB-I0gsg\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">news release<\/a> that dispatch received an initial 911 call just after 2:30 p.m. regarding an 80-year-old man, who went under the surface and began to struggle in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby bystanders at the lake attempted to help the man but were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Boerne Fire Department Water Rescue Team, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Boerne Police Department responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>As a precaution and to allow investigators to work safely, patrons were asked to leave the area, and the lake has been closed until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information will be provided as it becomes available, city officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities in\u00a0Boerne are responding to a drowning at Boerne City Lake, a popular Texas Hill Country destination near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[847,820,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-307326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-mysanews","tag-mysastaff","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307326","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=307326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}