{"id":305256,"date":"2026-10-12T19:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305256\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T19:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:56:14","slug":"bystander-uses-tree-branch-to-help-rescue-person-in-river-near-roberto-clemente-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305256\/","title":{"rendered":"Bystander uses tree branch to help rescue person in river near Roberto Clemente Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Rescuers pulled a man from the water near the Roberto Clemente Bridge in Pittsburgh just after midnight on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Emergency crews were dispatched to the bridge after receiving reports of a person in the water. Units from the Pittsburgh Bureau of EMS, River Rescue, Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire and Pittsburgh Bureau of Police all responded to the scene, where they located the man along the river wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Prior to the arrival of emergency crews, a bystander assisted the man by extending a tree branch for him to hold onto along the river wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">River Rescue arrived shortly after and threw the man a personal flotation device. Rescuers then pulled him onto their boat, where EMS divers evaluated him before bringing him to shore. He was then transported to a local hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Rescuers pulled a man from the water near the Roberto Clemente Bridge in Pittsburgh just after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[47372,125284,73,75,74,41706,84097],"class_list":["post-305256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bystander","tag-personal-flotation-device","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-roberto-clemente-bridge","tag-water-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305256","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=305256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}