{"id":371277,"date":"2026-07-13T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371277\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:23:09","slug":"emergency-crews-to-resume-water-search-at-benbrook-lake-for-missing-62-year-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371277\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency crews to resume water search at Benbrook Lake for missing 62-year-old man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ec745e4d-0036C6.MXF_00.16.00.10_1530806524993_5758850_ver1.0_640_360.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">BENBROOK, Texas &#8211; Authorities will resume a water search Monday morning for a 62-year-old man who went missing after slipping underwater at Benbrook Lake on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>   Search resumes <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The search was suspended at 9:30 p.m. Sunday night after local emergency crews and state law enforcement spent hours combing the lake in what is being investigated as a possible drowning.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, witnesses reported seeing the man go underwater in a designated swimming area near Mustang Park, located on the lake&#8217;s west side, but he failed to resurface.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The incident triggered a massive emergency response. Teams from the Tarrant County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Texas Game Wardens, Tarrant County Emergency Services District #1, and specialized dive teams from both Benbrook and the Fort Worth Fire Department converged near the Mustang Park boat ramp. A Fort Worth Police Department helicopter, Air 1, also assisted from above.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">State officials noted that while regional weather conditions could impact operations, Texas Game Wardens and local responders plan to be back out on the water first thing Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Benbrook Lake is located southwest of Fort Worth in Tarrant County. Authorities have not yet released the identity of the missing man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from Texas Game Wardens and Tarrant County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/benbrook\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benbrook<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/missing-persons\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Persons<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article BENBROOK, Texas &#8211; Authorities will resume a water search Monday morning for a 62-year-old man who went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[81589,1046,116,118,117,2474,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-371277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-benbrook","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-missing-persons","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371277","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=371277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}