{"id":136642,"date":"2026-03-12T18:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136642\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:57:08","slug":"man-rescued-from-lackawanna-river-in-scranton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136642\/","title":{"rendered":"Man rescued from Lackawanna River in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man is in the hospital after falling into the Lackawanna River in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">First responders were able to get him out of the river near Broadway Street just behind the SouthSide Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story; check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in the hospital after falling into the Lackawanna River in Scranton. Officials on scene say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5747,23555,178,180,179,62948],"class_list":["post-136642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-river","tag-mulberry-street","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-wnep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136642","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=136642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}