{"id":408326,"date":"2026-08-16T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408326\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:08:08","slug":"mans-body-recovered-after-drowning-on-north-texas-lake-grand-prairie-firefighters-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408326\/","title":{"rendered":"Man&#8217;s body recovered after drowning on North Texas lake, Grand Prairie firefighters say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a man who <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/drowning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">drowned<\/a> on Joe Pool Lake early Saturday evening has been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Prairie Fire Department shared more details on Sunday, saying the man was last seen at 5:15 p.m. Saturday evening swimming off of a boat, but was not spotted resurfacing. The department noted he was not wearing a life jacket at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Prairie Fire said the Public Safety Dive Team started search operations that evening until it got dark. Divers resumed operations Sunday morning and said they recovered the 36-year-old man. His identity will be released by the Dallas County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The department urged swimmers to wear life vests or other appropriate personal floatation devices while on or near the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Prairie Fire said this was the third drowning on Joe Pool Lake this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                      Felesha  Lee<\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a man who drowned on Joe Pool Lake early Saturday evening has been recovered. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2412,1279,27,29,28,8931],"class_list":["post-408326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-drowning","tag-grand-prairie","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-water-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408326","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=408326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}