{"id":334556,"date":"2026-06-13T03:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334556\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T03:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:51:15","slug":"watch-fort-worth-officer-pulls-disoriented-child-from-water-near-dream-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334556\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Fort Worth officer pulls \u2018disoriented\u2019 child from water near Dream Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fort Worth police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/1FJ5eq2HzE\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:rescued a child from water;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;rescued a child from water&quot;}\" class=\"link \">rescued a child from water<\/a> near Dream Park on Friday afternoon, according to a Facebook post from the police department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers initially responded to a report of a missing child at the park, and noticed something yellow sticking up from weeds near the water while they were searching, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As police approached, the child \u201cappeared disoriented\u201d and started moving farther into the water, officials said. At times, the child even went below the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One officer entered the water at that point and pulled the child out safely, video of the incident shows. The child was evaluated by paramedics and is safe, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis is a reminder that sometimes the difference between tragedy and relief is measured in seconds,\u201d the post reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\ud83d\udea8 More breaking news:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u25fd\ufe0f Sign up for Star-Telegram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/newsletters?newsletter=fortworth_breaking_newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:news alerts;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;news alerts&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> news alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth police rescued a child from water near Dream Park on Friday afternoon, according to a Facebook&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119538,33382,116,118,117,3737,22738,2086,410],"class_list":["post-334556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-dream-park","tag-facebook-post","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police","tag-missing-child","tag-police-department","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334556","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=334556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}