{"id":386738,"date":"2026-07-26T01:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386738\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T01:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:49:08","slug":"highway-83-bridge-partly-closed-as-crews-search-for-person-swept-away-in-nueces-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386738\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 83 bridge partly closed as crews search for person swept away in Nueces River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA PRYOR, Texas &#8211; First responders were searching Saturday for a person who was swept away in the Nueces River upstream from the Highway 83 crossing, prompting officials to close public access under the bridge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/19Bj8tnbXv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In a Facebook post at 6:19 p.m. Saturday<\/a>, the La Pryor Volunteer Fire Department asked people to avoid the area \u201cunder the Nueces River on Highway 83\u201d while crews searched \u201cfor a person that swept away from up river.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The department also issued a public safety alert that access to the Nueces River under the Highway 83 bridge is closed \u201cuntil further notice,\u201d warning the public: \u201cDo not move or go around the barricade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. We will update this article whenever we learn more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA PRYOR, Texas &#8211; First responders were searching Saturday for a person who was swept away in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-386738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386738","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=386738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}