{"id":387130,"date":"2026-07-26T17:41:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387130\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:41:35","slug":"texas-game-wardens-rescue-missing-boater-stuck-in-lake-tawakoni-for-hours-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387130\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Game Wardens rescue missing boater stuck in Lake Tawakoni for hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A missing boater was rescued by Texas Game Wardens from Lake Tawakoni Saturday morning, after officials say he was ejected from his boat after it hit a stump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Texas Game Wardens, the man, who wasn&#8217;t identified, was taking part in a local fishing tournament when the incident happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crews spent several hours searching for him before game wardens, using binoculars, found him in the water and were able to quickly rescue him, officials say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was wearing both a life jacket and his boat&#8217;s emergency engine cut-off switch, which Texas Game Wardens said helped to save his life after floating for more than three hours in the lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Always wear a life jacket and use your engine cut-off switch,&#8221; Texas Game Wardens said in a statement. &#8220;They only work if you use them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Tawakoni Volunteer Fire Department, Tawakoni South Volunteer Fire Department, West Tawakoni Police Department Drone Unit, Hunt County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Drone Team, Emory Fire Department Drone Team, Air Evac 67 and Flight for Life helped in the search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A missing boater was rescued by Texas Game Wardens from Lake Tawakoni Saturday morning, after officials say he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31157,103777,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-387130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-game-wardens","tag-lake-tawakoni","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387130","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=387130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}