{"id":376118,"date":"2026-07-16T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376118\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:05:08","slug":"officials-confirm-first-flood-fatality-in-uvalde-after-taillights-seen-in-floodwaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376118\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials confirm first flood fatality in Uvalde after taillights seen in floodwaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UVALDE, Texas &#8211; Uvalde County reported its first flood-related fatality Thursday after authorities found a vehicle in floodwaters north of Uvalde.<\/p>\n<p>At about 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 16, 2026, Incident Command received a radio notification from Texas Department of Public Safety Air Unit 108 reporting it saw the taillights and reverse lights of a vehicle bobbing in floodwater about four miles north of Uvalde at the intersection of U.S. Highway 83 North and County Road 400, according to the Uvalde Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>A Texas DPS boat team approached the vehicle and confirmed a male occupant was dead, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was identified as a 74-year-old whose family lives out of state. Authorities said he had eluded law enforcement warnings not to proceed up the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Ruben Nolasco and the Uvalde County Sheriff\u2019s Department will continue to investigate. Further updates are expected from the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UVALDE, Texas &#8211; Uvalde County reported its first flood-related fatality Thursday after authorities found a vehicle in floodwaters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-376118","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\/376118","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=376118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}