{"id":305300,"date":"2026-10-12T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305300\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:32:10","slug":"bystander-helps-rescue-man-from-allegheny-river-with-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305300\/","title":{"rendered":"Bystander helps rescue man from Allegheny River with branch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791840730_221_4a0a8774-983a-4c94-a3b0-d2630c50cec6_1653489233.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Raquel Ciampi\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A man was rescued from the Allegheny River near the Clemente Bridge around midnight, Pittsburgh Public Safety said.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The man was discovered in the water along the river wall, where a bystander used a tree branch to help him until additional assistance arrived.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">When River Rescue got to the scene, they were able to successfully pull the man from the water.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">He was hospitalized and is stable. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was rescued from the Allegheny River near the Clemente Bridge around midnight, Pittsburgh Public Safety said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[125303,22823,125299,10401,47372,125301,8633,1399,3192,139,73,75,74,6975,45883,125300,125302,2581,2867,10254],"class_list":["post-305300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-additional-assistance","tag-allegheny-river","tag-allegheny-river-rescue","tag-branch","tag-bystander","tag-clemente-bridge","tag-inbox","tag-man","tag-midnight","tag-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-public-safety","tag-river-rescue","tag-river-rescue-with-branch","tag-river-wall","tag-scene","tag-water","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305300","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=305300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}