{"id":296039,"date":"2025-10-12T01:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/296039\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T01:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:14:14","slug":"st-johns-county-firefighters-rescue-2-adults-from-boat-after-it-struck-sandbar-during-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/296039\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Johns County firefighters rescue 2 adults from boat after it struck sandbar during storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Station 9 crew that rescued 2 adults on boat in St. Johns County (St. Johns County Fire Rescue,  Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 St. Johns County Fire Rescue said it rescued two adults whose boat took on water after striking a sandbar during a storm on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\"><b>RELATED: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/weather\/2025\/10\/11\/jacksonville-faces-soaking-weekend-meteorologist-warns-of-rain-wind-and-flooding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/weather\/2025\/10\/11\/jacksonville-faces-soaking-weekend-meteorologist-warns-of-rain-wind-and-flooding\/\"><b>Jacksonville faces a messy little weekend: meteorologist warns of rain, wind, and flooding<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Officials said the pair had no flotation devices on board and firefighters provided life jackets before bringing them to their vehicle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The boat was secured and anchored to shore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Officials are reminding people to check the weather before heading out on the water, as conditions can change fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorJonathan Lundy headshot<a class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__LinkBase-sc-1fnzlkn-9 eUojqd gMnWPT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/team\/JLundy\/\" title=\"View Jonathan Lundy&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan Lundy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 gnunoy bOlrXa\">Hailing from Detroit, Jonathan is excited to start his media career at News4JAX in November 2023. He is passionate about telling stories that matter to the community and he is honored to serve Jacksonville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Station 9 crew that rescued 2 adults on boat in St. Johns County (St. Johns County Fire Rescue,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":296040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,14638,151216,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-296039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-st-johns-county","13":"tag-st-johns-county-fire-rescue","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115358549192631810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}