{"id":287283,"date":"2026-09-16T12:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287283\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:34:10","slug":"boat-fire-on-allegheny-river-sinks-vessel-near-pittsburgh-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287283\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat fire on Allegheny River sinks vessel near Pittsburgh bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boat fire on Allegheny River sinks vessel near Pittsburgh bridges<\/p>\n<p>A boat caught fire and sank early Wednesday morning on the Allegheny River near Pittsburgh&#8217;s Andy Warhol and Roberto Clemente bridges.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789562050_36_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A boat caught fire and sank early Wednesday morning on the Allegheny River near Pittsburgh&#8217;s Andy Warhol and Roberto Clemente bridges.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Emergency crews arrived at the scene just before 1 a.m. and found the boat fully engulfed in flames. Video shared by a viewer shows the fire as crews attempted to extinguish it from another boat.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police said video footage shows an individual boarding the boat and fleeing the scene shortly before the fire started.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">River Rescue crews were unable to locate anyone on the boat or in the water.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Officials have not yet determined the cause of the fire and are asking anyone with information to contact the fire investigative unit at 412-782-7646.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boat fire on Allegheny River sinks vessel near Pittsburgh bridges A boat caught fire and sank early Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6110,22823,7484,119550,11579,422,14779,119551,73,17876,14395,75,74,206,49755,41706,2581,68333,420,10254],"class_list":["post-287283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny","tag-allegheny-river","tag-andy-warhol","tag-boat-fire","tag-emergency-crew","tag-fire","tag-flame","tag-individual-boarding","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-bridge","tag-pittsburgh-bureau","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-police","tag-river-rescue-crew","tag-roberto-clemente-bridge","tag-scene","tag-vessel","tag-video","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287283","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=287283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}