{"id":337500,"date":"2026-06-15T21:29:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337500\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:29:39","slug":"video-captures-fort-worth-officer-saving-missing-boy-from-near-drowning-along-trinity-river-in-texas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337500\/","title":{"rendered":"Video captures Fort Worth officer saving missing boy from near drowning along Trinity River in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8212; An officer saved a missing boy from a near drowning on Friday after finding the youngster partially submerged, disoriented, and in immediate danger near the shoreline, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The department said the missing child report came in around 12:05 p.m., near Dream Park along the Trinity River, near University Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers searched the area, and one of them noticed something yellow sticking up from the weeds near the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">When the officer moved closer, they found the child partially submerged along the shoreline. As officers approached, the boy appeared disoriented and began moving farther into the water, at times going under the surface, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One officer entered the water and brought the child safely to shore before the situation worsened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Fort Worth Fire Department evaluated the boy as a precaution and determined the child was safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;This is a reminder that sometimes the difference between tragedy and relief is measured in seconds,&#8221; the Fort Worth Police Department said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The-CNN-Wire &amp; 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas &#8212; An officer saved a missing boy from a near drowning on Friday after finding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[120329,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-337500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-120329","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\/337500","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=337500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}