{"id":7774,"date":"2025-06-23T10:43:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/7774\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:43:33","slug":"houston-man-dies-after-being-pulled-from-water-in-galveston-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/7774\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston man dies after being pulled from water in Galveston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A 55-year-old Houston man drowned in Galveston Sunday morning while boogie boarding with his wife, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Galveston_Island_Beach_Patrol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Galveston_Island_Beach_Patrol\/\">Galveston Island Beach Patrol.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Officials say the couple was in the water near 31st Street when they got tired and tried to make their way back to shore. The man\u2019s wife made it safely but lost sight of her husband and called 911 around 8:35 a.m.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Galveston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Galveston\/\">Galveston police, fire, EMS, and Beach Patrol<\/a> responded to the scene. A lifeguard spotted the man floating near 24th Street at 9:09 a.m. He was pulled from the water, taken to a hospital, and later pronounced dead at 9:49 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Officials noted the beach was under a red flag warning at the time. This marks the fifth drowning on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Galveston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Galveston\/\">Galveston Island<\/a> so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 55-year-old Houston man drowned in Galveston Sunday morning while boogie boarding with his wife, according to Galveston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[9094,9093,9095,9091,9092,4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-7774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-galveston","9":"tag-galveston-beach-incident","10":"tag-galveston-death","11":"tag-galveston-drowning","12":"tag-galveston-island-beach-patrol","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114732270041180139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774","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=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}