{"id":136583,"date":"2026-03-12T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136583\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:44:08","slug":"man-rescued-from-lackawanna-river-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136583\/","title":{"rendered":"Man rescued from Lackawanna River in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency crews were called to an area near the North Scranton Expressway and Mulberry Street just before noon on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A man is in the hospital after falling into the Lackawanna River in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Officials on scene say the man fell into the water near the Lackawanna Heritage Trail by the North Scranton Expressway and Mulberry Street just before noon on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>First responders were able to get him out of the river near Broadway Street just behind the SouthSide Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e2ea0b99-749f-4f5b-a0d3-43bbc1d90988_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e2ea0b99-749f-4f5b-a0d3-43bbc1d90988_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews were called to an area near the North Scranton Expressway and Mulberry Street just before noon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-136583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136583","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=136583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}