{"id":30932,"date":"2023-03-07T17:16:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T22:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=30932"},"modified":"2023-03-07T18:12:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:12:30","slug":"2-small-planes-collide-over-lake-hartridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/03\/07\/2-small-planes-collide-over-lake-hartridge\/","title":{"rendered":"2 small planes collide over Lake Hartridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UPDATE: Polk County Sheriff Chief of Staff Steve Lester said at least one person is dead after 2 small planes collided.<\/strong> <strong>Lester said one of the planes sank 21 feet to the bottom of the lake. &#8220;I can tell you emphatically that we have at least one person deceased,&#8221; Lester said, confirming that the person died despite a CPR effort.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two small planes collided over Lake Hartridge in Winter Haven on Tuesday, according to the Winter Haven Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" data-id=\"30933\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/plane-in-water.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30933\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"363\" height=\"197\" data-id=\"30934\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-3-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-3-4.png 363w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-3-4-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said in an afternoon news release that units from the Winter Haven police and fire departments, the Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, and Polk Fire Rescue were searching the lake, including aerial units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said more information would be released when it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Polk County Sheriff Chief of Staff Steve Lester said at least one person is dead after 2 small planes collided. Lester said one of the planes sank 21 feet&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[4712],"class_list":["post-30932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-2-small-planes-collide-over-lake-hartridge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}