{"id":79672,"date":"2025-12-11T20:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/79672\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:39:06","slug":"tampa-officers-rescue-elderly-man-dangling-from-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/79672\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa officers rescue elderly man dangling from roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Two Tampa police officers rescued an elderly man who slipped while blowing leaves on his roof and was left dangling three stories high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officer Jason Sikoski and Officer Kaleb Girard pulled the man to safety and stayed with him until Tampa Fire Rescue arrived and helped him to the ground, according to a Tampa Police Department social media post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Body camera footage shows the officers working to pull the man up from where he was hanging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2025\/11\/17\/boaters-rescued-35-miles-off-venice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2025\/11\/17\/boaters-rescued-35-miles-off-venice\/\">VIDEO: Eight people in disabled boat rescued 36 hours after setting off from Venice<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI got you, sir,\u201d one officer said during the rescue. \u201cPut your foot against that metal version.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The officers guided the man through the rescue process, telling him to reach up and grab his wrist to pull him to safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI didn\u2019t mean to cause all this,\u201d the man said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cNo, no, no. It\u2019s not your fault at all. That\u2019s what we\u2019re here for, okay?\u201d an officer responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The man thanked the officers for their quick response time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re grateful for their quick response, and for a community that trusts us to be there when it matters most!\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Two Tampa police officers rescued an elderly man who slipped while blowing leaves on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[44547,44548,44546,135,6417,137,136,44545],"class_list":["post-79672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-elderly-man-rescued","tag-police-body-camera","tag-roof-accident-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-fire-rescue","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}