{"id":1328956,"date":"2024-06-09T07:27:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T12:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1328956"},"modified":"2024-06-10T07:59:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T12:59:54","slug":"man-rescued-after-driving-car-into-texarkana-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1328956","title":{"rendered":"Man rescued after driving car into Texarkana lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEXARKANA \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/texarkana-225x163.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"163\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1328957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/texarkana-225x163.webp 225w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/texarkana-483x350.webp 483w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/texarkana.webp 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>A 79-year-old man was recued on Friday after accidentally driving his car into Bringle Lake, the Texarkana Police Department said. According to our colleagues at KETK, a local angler heard commotion at the Bringle Park boat ramp and saw a man sitting in the drivers seat of a sinking car. The angler, identified as Ricky Dumas, was able to get the elderly man out of his Honda Accord before it went underwater.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The police department said the elderly man was not injured and they are working on getting his car out of the lake.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re very thankful that Mr. Dumas was there today. His quick thinking and actions probably saved this man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the Texarkana PD said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXARKANA \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A 79-year-old man was recued on Friday after accidentally driving his car into Bringle Lake, the Texarkana Police Department said. According to our colleagues at KETK, a local angler heard commotion at the Bringle Park boat ramp and saw a man sitting in the drivers seat of a sinking car. The angler, identified &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1328956\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man rescued after driving car into Texarkana lake<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1328958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/texarkana-225x163.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Man rescued after driving car into Texarkana lake","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 07:08:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/texarkana-225x163.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Man rescued after driving car into Texarkana lake","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328960,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328956\/revisions\/1328960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}