{"id":376699,"date":"2026-07-17T11:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376699\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:09:24","slug":"denton-emergency-services-recover-bodies-of-man-dog-from-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376699\/","title":{"rendered":"Denton emergency services recover bodies of man, dog from pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Denton Fire Department announced in a social media post Wednesday at 6:45 p.m.\u00a0they were investigating a possible drowning\u00a0at a community pond in the Country Lakes neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters later confirmed that an unidentified man and dog had drowned in the pond. They were both recovered from the water, firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts and prayers are with this family on the loss of two of their loved ones,&#8221; the fire department said in the post.<\/p>\n<p>This drowning is among several water-related deaths throughout North Texas this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth firefighters on Wednesday found two people dead near an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/public-safety\/article\/two-found-dead-near-overturned-kayak-east-fort-22346821.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">overturned kayak<\/a> in a private pond in east Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters said it was reported as a water emergency in the 3100 block of Cooks Lane. The unidentified victims were approximately 20 and 60 years old and were pronounced dead at the scene, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fort-worth\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth <\/a>firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the body of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/public-safety\/article\/texas-game-wardens-missing-man-benbrook-lake-22342533.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freddy Ferrer Bracamonte<\/a>, 62, of Fort Worth, was recovered from Benbrook Lake, according to a statement from the Texas Parks &amp; Wildlife Department. Bracamonte was last seen Sunday in a designated swimming area. Witnesses told officials that Bracamonte went underwater near Mustang Park and didn\u2019t resurface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Denton Fire Department announced in a social media post Wednesday at 6:45 p.m.\u00a0they were investigating a possible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[732,102,104,103,223,110642,92897,93224],"class_list":["post-376699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-article","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-tp-accidental-death","tag-tp-denton-county","tag-tp-denton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376699","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=376699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}