{"id":399342,"date":"2026-08-06T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399342\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:02:13","slug":"70-year-old-austin-woman-dies-following-water-rescue-at-san-marcos-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399342\/","title":{"rendered":"70-year-old Austin woman dies following water rescue at San Marcos park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN MARCOS, Texas \u2014 A 70-year-old Austin woman died Wednesday after she was pulled from the San Marcos River during a water rescue at Rio Vista Park, according to a city spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The San Marcos Police and Fire departments responded to the scene at 9:48 a.m. The woman, who had been underwater diving in the river, was pulled out by first responders, who immediately began CPR, the city said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/one-taken-to-hospital-after-rollover-crash-on-us-183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | One taken to hospital after rollover crash on US 183<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She was transported to Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in San Marcos, where she later died.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Wednesday, San Marcos Emergency Services posted on Facebook that there was &#8220;a large emergency response&#8221; at the park and asked the public to avoid the area so first responders could safely manage the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN MARCOS, Texas \u2014 A 70-year-old Austin woman died Wednesday after she was pulled from the San Marcos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-399342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399342","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=399342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}