{"id":334612,"date":"2026-06-13T04:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334612\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T04:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:40:15","slug":"officer-pulls-child-from-water-near-dream-park-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334612\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer pulls child from water near Dream Park in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Worth police <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/1FJ5eq2HzE\/\">rescued a child from water<\/a> near Dream Park on Friday afternoon, according to a Facebook post from the police department.<\/p>\n<p>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>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>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>\u201cThis is a reminder that sometimes the difference between tragedy and relief is measured in seconds,\u201d the post reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published June 12, 2026 at 5:38 PM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/288629615\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781325615_320_LillieDavidson-Profile Cropped.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Lillie Davidson\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/288629615\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lillie Davidson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Lillie Davidson is a breaking news reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She graduated from TCU in 2025 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism, is fluent in Spanish, and can complete a crossword in five minutes.\n            <\/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":334613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-334612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334612","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=334612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}