{"id":258270,"date":"2026-08-03T13:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258270\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:27:11","slug":"woman-rescued-after-staircase-collapses-in-pittsburgh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258270\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman rescued after staircase collapses in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woman rescued after plunging around 20 feet during staircase collapse in Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0a8774-983a-4c94-a3b0-d2630c50cec6_1653489233.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Raquel Ciampi\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A woman was rescued after she fell around 20 feet from a partially collapsed staircase in Pittsburgh&#8217;s South Side. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Pittsburgh Emergency Medical Services and Pittsburgh Fire were called to the 2500 block of Mission Street Sunday for an exterior staircase that had partially collapsed.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">When first responders arrived, they found a woman who had fallen between 20 to 25 feet to the ground below.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Crews were able to rescue the woman using a rope system and get her to safety. The woman was taken to a hospital with injuries to her lower body. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Building inspectors were called in to assess the safety and integrity of the structure after the collapse. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Officials say residents will not be required to vacate at this time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Woman rescued after plunging around 20 feet during staircase collapse in Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH \u2014 A woman was rescued&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[109655,109653,109600,109658,13068,6111,109654,109650,74389,73,29296,18537,75,74,8130,8432,11584,4602,109651,109656,109657,109652],"class_list":["post-258270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-2500-block","tag-building-inspectors","tag-exterior-staircase","tag-fall-20-feet","tag-first-responders","tag-hospital","tag-lower-body-injuries","tag-mission-street","tag-partial-collapse","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-ems","tag-pittsburgh-fire","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pennsylvania","tag-residents","tag-rope-system","tag-south-side","tag-staircase-collapse","tag-structure-safety","tag-sunday-rescue","tag-woman-rescued"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258270","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=258270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}