{"id":84151,"date":"2026-01-11T22:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84151\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:58:15","slug":"pittsburgh-crews-called-in-early-to-handle-expected-snow-freezing-temperatures-mayor-says-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84151\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh crews called in early to handle expected snow, freezing temperatures, mayor says \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh Department of Public Works crews are coming in early to handle expected snow and freezing temperatures in the city, Mayor Corey O\u2019Connor says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">In a social media post at 4:40 p.m. on Sunday, O\u2019Connor said he\u2019s called in the DPW nightshift early for a 12-hour shift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Forty trucks will be on the roads citywide until 10 p.m., O\u2019Connor says. Twenty trucks will salt slick spots and problem areas overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Just last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/new-administration-pittsburgh-making-changes-prepare-next-big-snowfall\/RPQRBJFRNFET5KQY325AB47SX4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/new-administration-pittsburgh-making-changes-prepare-next-big-snowfall\/RPQRBJFRNFET5KQY325AB47SX4\/\">O\u2019Connor hosted a meeting<\/a> to discuss how the city can improve its response, ahead of the next significant snowfall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Steps included fixing snow vehicles, training more drivers and fitting vehicles with GPS for mapping purposes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">11 Investigates reported last week that O\u2019Connor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/11-investigates-mayors-new-plan-handle-snowfall-pittsburgh-addresses-aging-fleet\/T4WL54VNOBC5JGQ5XDIFGTBFBU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/11-investigates-mayors-new-plan-handle-snowfall-pittsburgh-addresses-aging-fleet\/T4WL54VNOBC5JGQ5XDIFGTBFBU\/\">new plan to handle snowfall<\/a> in Pittsburgh would address the city\u2019s aging fleet.<\/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 Pittsburgh Department of Public Works crews are coming in early to handle expected snow and freezing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,42144,42146,79,15116,21875,33665,9159,10534,15097,2443,84,42145,73,75,74,28983,6014,14832,14833,14834,933,10422,25973,42147,25975,5432,7367],"class_list":["post-84151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county","tag-brine","tag-called-in","tag-city","tag-corey-oconnor","tag-department-of-public-works","tag-dpw","tag-early","tag-freeze","tag-freezing","tag-ice","tag-mayor","tag-nightshift","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-plow","tag-road","tag-roads","tag-salt","tag-snow","tag-snow-storm","tag-snowfall","tag-snowstorm","tag-snwostorm","tag-temperatures","tag-treat","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84151","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=84151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}