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Monday, February 12, 2007
By Mike Bucsko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
One minute after noon yesterday, a group of Pittsburgh firefighters were in their truck driving across the Andy Warhol Bridge to their North Side station when they spotted a woman poised to jump off the Rachel Carson Bridge.
Firefighter Sheldon Henry was the first to spot the woman and he told Capt. Ron Bartolowits, who immediately contacted the city's emergency operations dispatch center in Point Breeze.
The Engine Co. 32 truck turned right on Isabella Street, then right again onto the Carson Bridge -- the former Ninth Street Bridge -- and pulled up next to where the woman stood on the outside of the bridge railing.
She glanced at the firefighters and at another woman walking across the bridge, then without a word, jumped into the ice-covered Allegheny River.
"I never thought she'd jump," ...
...About 12:20 p.m., a boat pulled away from the River Rescue office down the Allegheny River. The Husky Nattiq Airboat, a rescue vehicle the city bought late last year, moved sluggishly through the partially frozen river, then swept along rapidly atop the ice, before it again moved slowly through the icy water....
Rescue personnel struggle to lift a woman into a Stokes basket as they pull her from the Allegheny River into their boat yesterday.
The rest: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07043/761422-53.stm
By Mike Bucsko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
One minute after noon yesterday, a group of Pittsburgh firefighters were in their truck driving across the Andy Warhol Bridge to their North Side station when they spotted a woman poised to jump off the Rachel Carson Bridge.
Firefighter Sheldon Henry was the first to spot the woman and he told Capt. Ron Bartolowits, who immediately contacted the city's emergency operations dispatch center in Point Breeze.
The Engine Co. 32 truck turned right on Isabella Street, then right again onto the Carson Bridge -- the former Ninth Street Bridge -- and pulled up next to where the woman stood on the outside of the bridge railing.
She glanced at the firefighters and at another woman walking across the bridge, then without a word, jumped into the ice-covered Allegheny River.
"I never thought she'd jump," ...
...About 12:20 p.m., a boat pulled away from the River Rescue office down the Allegheny River. The Husky Nattiq Airboat, a rescue vehicle the city bought late last year, moved sluggishly through the partially frozen river, then swept along rapidly atop the ice, before it again moved slowly through the icy water....
Rescue personnel struggle to lift a woman into a Stokes basket as they pull her from the Allegheny River into their boat yesterday.
The rest: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07043/761422-53.stm