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<\/p>\nMan rescued from scaffolding after being burned by wires in Pittsburgh<\/p>\n
Public safety crews save unconscious man in Brookline<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 6:32 PM EDT May 21, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\tA man was rescued from scaffolding after being shocked by electrical wires in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood Thursday afternoon.Sky 4 flies over the scene in Brookline: See the video abovePittsburgh Public Safety said there was a report of a person dangling from the scaffolding outside an apartment building at Castlegate and Woodbourne avenues just before 2 p.m.The man had been working on the scaffolding, and he passed out after his head brushed against high-tension wires when he stood up, public safety officials said.EMS rescue crews used a rope system to bring the man to safety through an open window. The patient was evaluated at the scene and then taken to the hospital with second-degree burns on his head.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n A man was rescued from scaffolding after being shocked by electrical wires in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n Sky 4 flies over the scene in Brookline: See the video above<\/p>\n Pittsburgh Public Safety said there was a report of a person dangling from the scaffolding outside an apartment building at Castlegate and Woodbourne avenues just before 2 p.m.<\/p>\n The man had been working on the scaffolding, and he passed out after his head brushed against high-tension wires when he stood up, public safety officials said.<\/p>\n EMS rescue crews used a rope system to bring the man to safety through an open window. The patient was evaluated at the scene and then taken to the hospital with second-degree burns on his head.<\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man rescued from scaffolding after being burned by wires in Pittsburgh Public safety crews save unconscious man in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[900,6152,16698,88286,88284,11295,1399,88288,4800,73,29296,75,74,6975,11584,87011,88287,88285],"class_list":["post-199415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-action-news","tag-apartment-building","tag-brookline","tag-brookline-neighborhood-thursday-afternoon","tag-castlegate","tag-head","tag-man","tag-open-window","tag-p-m","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-ems","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-public-safety","tag-rope-system","tag-scaffolding","tag-second-degree-burn","tag-woodbourne-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199415","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=199415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}