{"id":370125,"date":"2026-07-12T09:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370125\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T09:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:51:07","slug":"cps-over-15k-residents-without-power-as-storms-roll-through-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370125\/","title":{"rendered":"CPS: Over 15k residents without power as storms roll through area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" height=\"100\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7cb55bcc-575a-4eb1-a263-c08220e34b90-medium1x1_amoeba.PNG\" width=\"100\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brain-eating amoeba that kills 10-year-old Waco area swimmer poses minimal risk locally<\/p>\n<p>A young girl died earlier this week after swimming in a river and a lake near Waco over the Labor Day weekend. The rare amoeba that killed her may not pose a significant health risk to area swimmers, but health professionals encourage everyone to know about the risks of swimming in stagnant, warm bodies of water. Lily Mae Avant, 10, went swimming in the Brazos River and Lake Whitney earlier this month. She apparently inhaled Naegleria Fowleri, a rare organism, through her nose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brain-eating amoeba that kills 10-year-old Waco area swimmer poses minimal risk locally A young girl died earlier this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-370125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370125","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=370125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}