{"id":275890,"date":"2026-08-31T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275890\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:08:10","slug":"3-people-unaccounted-for-after-small-vessel-collides-with-towboat-on-monongahela-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275890\/","title":{"rendered":"3 people unaccounted for after small vessel collides with towboat on Monongahela River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people are unaccounted for and two others were flown to a nearby hospital after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/video\/3-people-unaccounted-for-after-boat-collision-on-monongahela-river\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">towboat and a private vessel collided<\/a> Sunday night along the Monongahela River in southwestern Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The boat collision happened around 9 p.m. on Sunday along the Monongahela River, around one mile south of Min Love Park in Rices Landing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials said that the initial call came in from a towboat that was pushing or pulling empty barges, followed by a distress call that came in from another private boat. The smaller boat was around 24 feet in length.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That boat then capsized and the dark conditions posed challenges when it came to rescuing people. Crews recovered the boat Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three people remain unaccounted for from the private boat. The two other individuals who were flown from the area by medical helicopter are believed to be in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screenshot-2026-08-31-112700.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-08-31-112700.png \" height=\"344\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A boat was pulled from the Monongahela River on Monday morning after a collision between a private vessel and a towboat left three people unaccounted for near Rices Landing.<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Photojournalist Dan Vojtko<\/p>\n<p>The emergency response consisted of officials from Greene and Fayette counties, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, we have divers that are going to be entering the water to check the wreckage and look for any type of victims or anything that they can recover,&#8221; said Jim Bittner, who leads the Fayette County Swift Water Rescue Team. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been doing air searches as well, since we got here. We&#8217;ve also been doing some side-scan sonar on the river, checking for anything that we can find.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bittner said that the collision is a rare situation and is something he has not seen in his 18 years, adding that all available resources are being deployed to try and find the missing people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maryland State Police have also responded to help assist crews in the ongoing search mission.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people are unaccounted for and two others were flown to a nearby hospital after a towboat and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3140,28,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-275890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-greene-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275890","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=275890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}