{"id":78040,"date":"2026-08-29T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/us-officials-urge-swimmers-to-be-cautious-amid-surge-in-drowning-deaths\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:56:09","slug":"us-officials-urge-swimmers-to-be-cautious-amid-surge-in-drowning-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/us-officials-urge-swimmers-to-be-cautious-amid-surge-in-drowning-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"US officials urge swimmers to be cautious amid surge in drowning deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent deadly water-related incidents amid heatwave leads National Park Service to issue water-safety reminders<\/p>\n<p>As a heatwave continues to bake the western and central US, officials are urging swimmers to be cautious when seeking respite from the summer heat, especially amid a score of recent deadly water-related incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, from April to September, drowning deaths rise nationwide, according to 2018-24 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/drowning\/data-research\/index.html\">data<\/a> from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/29\/us-swimmers-drowning-deaths-heatwave\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent deadly water-related incidents amid heatwave leads National Park Service to issue water-safety reminders As a heatwave continues to bake the western and central US, officials are urging swimmers to be cautious when seeking respite from the summer heat, especially amid a score of recent deadly water-related incidents. Each year, from April to September, drowning &#8230; <a title=\"US officials urge swimmers to be cautious amid surge in drowning deaths\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/us-officials-urge-swimmers-to-be-cautious-amid-surge-in-drowning-deaths\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US officials urge swimmers to be cautious amid surge in drowning deaths\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}