{"id":337127,"date":"2026-06-15T15:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337127\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:46:09","slug":"fort-worth-police-rescue-child-from-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337127\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Police Rescue Child From River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Texas police officers acted quickly to locate and rescue a child who had wandered into a river on Friday, June 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers from the Fort Worth Police Department responded to a report on Friday afternoon of a missing child in the area of Dream Park, a 57,000-square-foot <a data-ylk=\"slk:playground;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.fortworthtexas.gov\/departments\/parks\/services\/inclusive-playgrounds\/dream-park\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">playground<\/a> for disabled kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The child was spotted partially submerged in the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Clear Fork of the Trinity River.;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:\/\/txrivers.org\/discover-texas-rivers\/trinity-river\/clear-fork-trinity-river\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Clear Fork of the Trinity River.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bodycam and aerial footage show the moment police encountered the child, who &#8220;appeared disoriented and began moving father into the water,&#8221; at times going beneath the surface, the department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Without hesitation, one of our officers entered the water and safely brought the child to shore before the situation could become even more dangerous,&#8221; the Fort Worth Police Department said on Facebook. &#8220;This is a reminder that sometimes the difference between tragedy and relief is measured in seconds.&#8221; Credit: Fort Worth Police Department via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas police officers acted quickly to locate and rescue a child who had wandered into a river on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,2238,22738],"class_list":["post-337127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police-department","tag-missing-child"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337127","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=337127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}