{"id":136571,"date":"2026-03-12T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136571\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:32:07","slug":"emergency-responders-pull-man-from-lackawanna-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136571\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency responders pull man from Lackawanna River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency responders pulled a man from the Lackawanna River on Thursday after he was reported floating and unresponsive near Mulberry Street in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>The man was spotted at about 11:50 a.m. and emergency responders found him as he moved downriver, according to dispatches from the Lackawanna County 911 center.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders soon spotted the man near Sunoco on Seventh Avenue. They pulled him from the river and started CPR.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s condition was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>A police officer fell into the water during the rescue. He was transported to the hospital by fellow officers, according to county 911 center dispatches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency responders pulled a man from the Lackawanna River on Thursday after he was reported floating and unresponsive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-136571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136571","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=136571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}