{"id":106272,"date":"2024-07-05T00:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T00:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/shark-attacks-man-in-water-off-south-padre-island-on-fourth-of-july\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T00:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T00:03:28","slug":"shark-attacks-man-in-water-off-south-padre-island-on-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/shark-attacks-man-in-water-off-south-padre-island-on-fourth-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark attacks man in water off South Padre Island on Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-04\/Getty_070424_SharkSighting-STOCK.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Getty Images &#8211; STOCK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas) &#8212; A man was attacked by a shark on the Fourth of July while in the waters off South Padre Island in Texas, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The South Padre Island Police Department said it received a call reporting a &#8220;severe&#8221; shark bite to the leg at around 11 a.m. local time Thursday near the 4100 block of Gulf Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>First responders from the South Padre Island police and fire departments provided treatment at the scene before the man was transported to a nearby hospital, police said. A police spokesperson did not provide an update on the man&#8217;s condition.<\/p>\n<p>Footage from a beachgoer who witnessed the incident showed a shark swimming near the shore in the vicinity of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The South Padre Island Beach patrol, along with the fire and police departments, are currently patrolling the shoreline and using drones, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images &#8211; STOCK (SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas) &#8212; A man was attacked by a shark on the Fourth of July while in the waters off South Padre Island in Texas, police said. The South Padre Island Police Department said it received a call reporting a &#8220;severe&#8221; shark bite to<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/shark-attacks-man-in-water-off-south-padre-island-on-fourth-of-july\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}