{"id":100216,"date":"2026-01-29T23:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100216\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:55:12","slug":"vehicle-goes-into-monongahela-river-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100216\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle goes into Monongahela River in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA rescue effort is ongoing after a vehicle apparently went off I-376 (Parkway East) and into the Monongahela River on Thursday evening. One person has been taken to the hospital.Shortly before 6:45 p.m., Sky 4 video showed a dive team member entering the frigid water. It’s unclear if they were looking for another person.Watch LIVE VIDEO from Sky 4: Click the video player aboveSky 4 flew over the scene at the icy river near Second Avenue between the 10th Street and Hot Metal bridges in Pittsburgh.Video showed emergency responders placing a ladder into the river just below the eastbound exit lane for Forbes Avenue\/Oakland on the parkway.A dive team has also responded. Lights were brought to the scene to assist rescuers as the sky turned dark Thursday night.Diver enters icy Mon River: Watch the video from Sky 4 below.Pittsburgh police and Pennsylvania State Police are at the scene. City police said the incident began on\/from Interstate 376.Second Avenue is closed in the area, as the riverbank is lined with emergency crews while the incident continues.One person taken to hospital from Mon River — Watch the breaking news report belowWatch the original breaking news report from Sky 4 belowThis is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 for updates. Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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A rescue effort is ongoing after a vehicle apparently went off I-376 (Parkway East) and into the Monongahela River on Thursday evening. One person has been taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Shortly before 6:45 p.m., Sky 4 video showed a dive team member entering the frigid water. It’s unclear if they were looking for another person.<\/p>\n

Watch LIVE VIDEO from Sky 4: Click the video player above<\/p>\n

Sky 4 flew over the scene at the icy river near Second Avenue between the 10th Street and Hot Metal bridges in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

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Video showed emergency responders placing a ladder into the river just below the eastbound exit lane for Forbes Avenue\/Oakland on the parkway.<\/p>\n

A dive team has also responded. Lights were brought to the scene to assist rescuers as the sky turned dark Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Diver enters icy Mon River: Watch the video from Sky 4 below.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh police and Pennsylvania State Police are at the scene. City police said the incident began on\/from Interstate 376.<\/p>\n

Second Avenue is closed in the area, as the riverbank is lined with emergency crews while the incident continues.<\/p>\n

One person taken to hospital from Mon River — Watch the breaking news report below<\/p>\n

Watch the original breaking news report from Sky 4 below<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 for updates. <\/p>\n

Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rescue effort is ongoing after a vehicle apparently went off I-376 (Parkway East) and into the Monongahela…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[900,2088,48910,11579,12285,48909,16977,48906,13414,1730,73,75,74,87,25983,48907,3571,6967,48908,2867],"class_list":["post-100216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-action-news","tag-area","tag-birmingham","tag-emergency-crew","tag-emergency-responder","tag-hot-metal-bridge","tag-i-376","tag-mon-river","tag-monongahela-river","tag-parkway-east","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-report","tag-river","tag-second-avenue","tag-sky","tag-vehicle","tag-video-player-abovevideo","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}