{"id":102540,"date":"2026-02-01T22:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102540\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:28:07","slug":"philadelphia-police-urge-people-not-to-walk-on-citys-frozen-rivers-this-is-illegal-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102540\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police urge people not to walk on city&#8217;s frozen rivers: &#8220;This is illegal for a reason&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Police Department is urging people not to walk on the city&#8217;s frozen rivers as the Delaware Valley continues to deal with freezing conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Sunday, Philadelphia police said: &#8220;We&#8217;re getting reports of people walking and ice skating on Philadelphia&#8217;s rivers. This is illegal for a reason. River ice is not as thick as it looks &#8211; moving water underneath weakens it and conditions can change fast. Please stay safe and stay off the ice!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Philadelphia&#8217;s cameras were near the Falls Bridge at the Schuylkill River Sunday afternoon, when multiple people were spotted walking on the icy river.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ppl-on-river-ice-raw-burton-concatenated-160516-frame-1823.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"ppl-on-river-ice-raw-burton-concatenated-160516-frame-1823.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Officers with the Philadelphia Police Department eventually arrived and told people to get off the river. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/public-safety-warning-frozen-rivers-pittsburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Public safety officials in Pittsburgh<\/a> are also urging residents not walk on the city&#8217;s rivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/deep-freeze-coastal-storm-flood-weather-philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sunday is the ninth straight day with below-freezing conditions<\/a> in Philadelphia after the city got nearly 10 inches of snow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the city&#8217;s longest subfreezing stretch since 2004. It&#8217;s also the eighth time Philly has been below freezing for nine or more days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Monday will be the 10th day, which will be the longest consecutive stretch of freezing temps since 1979.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ppl-on-river-ice-raw-burton-concatenated-160516-frame-6232.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"ppl-on-river-ice-raw-burton-concatenated-160516-frame-6232.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia has a chance to get above freezing Tuesday or Wednesday, but if that doesn&#8217;t happen, the region might not get above freezing for another week or more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NEXT Weather team is also tracking two chances of snow later this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Police Department is urging people not to walk on the city&#8217;s frozen rivers as the Delaware&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,33486],"class_list":{"0":"post-102540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news","11":"tag-schuylkill-river"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102540","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=102540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}