Firefighters rescued a woman Saturday who fell about 40 feet from a bridge into the LA River.<\/p>\n
The fall was reported at 1:24 p.m. Saturday at 2750 E. Washington Blvd., east of Soto Street, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Jamie Stewart.<\/p>\n
\u201cLAFD Air Operations is performing a hoisting operation and will be transporting the patient for further medical care at a local hospital,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n
Paramedics were lowered down to the patient to evaluate her condition for transport, he said.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Police Department and Department of Transportation were summoned for traffic control, Stewart said.<\/p>\n
The woman\u2019s condition was not immediately available. It was not clear how she came to fall from the bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters rescued a woman Saturday who fell about 40 feet from a bridge into the LA River. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":632582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[37173,1582,276,16949,2961,224,5337,60883,8743,11459],"class_list":["post-944620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bridge","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-fall","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-rescued","tag-river","tag-woman"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116944479816436321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}