{"id":374517,"date":"2026-07-15T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374517\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:38:08","slug":"two-found-dead-near-overturned-kayak-in-east-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374517\/","title":{"rendered":"Two found dead near overturned kayak in east Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/public-safety\/article\/body-of-man-recovered-monday-at-benbrook-lake-22326071.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dead<\/a> Wednesday near an overturned kayak in a private pond in east <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fort-worth\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a>, according to the Fort Worth Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/public-safety\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Firefighters<\/a> and medical personnel were dispatched about 11:20 a.m. to a water emergency in the 3100 block of Cooks Lane, just north of U.S. Highway 180 between Fort Worth and Arlington.<\/p>\n<p>Crews found the overturned kayak and two people in the pond, fire officials said. Medical personnel attempted lifesaving measures, but both were pronounced dead at the scene, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were approximately 60 and 20 years old. Their identities are being withheld pending formal identification and notification of next of kin by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said it was not immediately clear what caused the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were found dead Wednesday near an overturned kayak in a private pond in east Fort Worth,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1638,116,118,117,88032,87907,88643],"class_list":["post-374517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-brief","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth","tag-tp-arlington","tag-tp-fort-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374517","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=374517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}