{"id":97135,"date":"2026-07-04T04:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/97135\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T04:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:46:10","slug":"three-children-dead-and-six-people-rescued-after-boat-capsizes-in-lake-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/97135\/","title":{"rendered":"Three children dead and six people rescued after boat capsizes in Lake Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LAKE GENEVA, Wis. \u2014 Three children died and six more people, including another child, were rescued after severe weather caused a boat to capsize in Lake Geneva.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rescue crews responded during the afternoon of July 3 after <a href=\"https:\/\/wtmj.com\/news\/2026\/07\/03\/tornado-warning-canceled-for-racine-and-kenosha-counties\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sudden storms moved through Walworth County<\/a>, producing hazardous boating conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityoflakegeneva.gov\/203\/Police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City of Lake Geneva Police<\/a> say a privately owned recreational motorboat carrying six adults and 4 children took on water, overturned, and sank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All six adults and one child were rescued from the water, but after an intense search, first responders located and recovered three children from the lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite life-saving measures at the scene and medical efforts at the hospital, all three children died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Law enforcement confirmed that all four children were wearing life jackets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.wisconsin.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources<\/a> and the Geneva Lake Law Enforcement Agency are conducting a joint investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The names of the children who died have not been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKE GENEVA, Wis. \u2014 Three children died and six more people, including another child, were rescued after severe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[48302,48303,48304,48305,65,2117,48306,29254],"class_list":["post-97135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-boat-capsized","tag-boat-overturned","tag-city-of-lake-geneva-police","tag-deadly-boating-accident","tag-geneva","tag-lake-geneva","tag-three-children-dead","tag-water-rescue"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116859894899486147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}