{"id":377960,"date":"2026-07-18T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377960\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T14:49:08","slug":"27-year-old-man-drowns-at-joe-pool-lake-on-friday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377960\/","title":{"rendered":"27-year-old man drowns at Joe Pool Lake on Friday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784386148_712_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=\"\">GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas &#8211; A 27-year-old man drowned at Joe Pool Lake on Friday evening, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>   Joe Pool Lake drowning <\/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 Grand Prairie Fire Department responded to reports of a possible drowning at approximately 7:20 p.m. The Grand Prairie Public Safety Dive Team conducted a search of the area and recovered the man&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials said the swimmer was not wearing a life vest at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The identity of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of next of kin and official release by the Dallas County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">As the lake season continues, the fire department strongly encourages the public to wear life vests or other personal flotation devices when in or near the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Grand Prairie Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/grand-prairie\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Prairie<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas &#8211; A 27-year-old man drowned at Joe Pool Lake on Friday evening, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,581,1279,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-377960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-dallas-county","tag-grand-prairie","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377960","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=377960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377960\/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=377960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}