{"id":169086,"date":"2026-04-18T02:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169086\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T02:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:29:08","slug":"man-dies-after-water-rescue-from-wissahickon-creek-in-philadelphia-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169086\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after water rescue from Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man died after being rescued from Devil&#8217;s Pool along the Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia\u00a0Friday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the man was cooling off from the heat in the water when he slipped under. A pedestrian pulled him from the water and another bystander called 911, reporting the man was pulled from the creek near Wises Mill Road and Forbidden Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews responded and performed CPR on the man using an automated chest compression device at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pic-9.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Man dies after water rescue from Wissakickon Creek in Philadelphia, police say \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 3 was over the scene on Forbidden Drive when first responders were performing CPR.<\/p>\n<p>The man was transported to a hospital in cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead shortly after 7 p.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man died after being rescued from Devil&#8217;s Pool along the Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia\u00a0Friday afternoon, police said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37638,69,71,70,76213],"class_list":["post-169086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-fairmount","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-water-rescues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169086","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=169086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}