{"id":378378,"date":"2026-07-19T02:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T02:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378378\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T02:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T02:59:42","slug":"developing-rescue-underway-in-south-central-canal-fire-officials-say-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378378\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing: Rescue underway in South Central canal, fire officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Emergency crews worked to rescue a person from a canal in south-central El Paso Thursday night and are now assessing the individual. <\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Fire Department, a water rescue response was underway at the Cesar Chavez Border Highway and Fonseca Drive after U.S. Customs and Border Protection requested assistance from the El Paso Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>While information is limited, EPFD said the call came in at 7:52 p.m. Thursday, when CBP asked for help from EPFD&#8217;s water rescue team to help rescue someone. <\/p>\n<p>EPFD later said that contact has been made with the patient and crews are now assessing the individual and transporting the individual. <\/p>\n<p> Fire department crews were on scene at the Fonseca Ramp and Cesar Chavez area.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story, check back for updates. <\/p>\n<p>WATCH: <\/p>\n<p><p>Developing: Rescue underway in South Central canal, fire officials say (Credit: KINT)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED:  <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-police-rescue-underway-at-rio-grande-canal?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso police: rescue underway at Rio Grande canal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Emergency crews worked to rescue a person from a canal in south-central El&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-378378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378378","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=378378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}