Search underway for possible jumper at Steel Bridge, Portland OR
Missing PersonEmergency crews are searching the area around the Steel Bridge near N Steel Bridge for a possible jumper after shoes were found on the west end. Multiple rescue units and a boat are scanning the shoreline and under the bridge but have not yet located the person. Traffic is backed up due to emergency vehicles blocking the westbound lanes.
Audio|Source: Portland Area Fire and Rescue
05:55
Transcript:
00:00
To me, the west end?
00:03
Thank you, yeah, the west end.
00:06
North side of the bridge on the west end.
00:10
If Rescue Boat 21 can come back around, maybe look underneath me.
00:14
All right, Rescue Boat 21 copies that.
00:20
We're just going to make contact with,
00:22
we got an individual here,
00:24
just south of the bridge on the east bank we're going to make contact with, and we'll hit over that area.
00:32
Command.
00:38
Truck 1, Angie 1.
00:39
What's your location?
00:42
Yeah, this is Truck 1.
00:43
We have the V team on the lower deck at the steel bridge and myself another in the mule coming back from the north side.
00:56
Copy that. Command Engine 1.
00:58
We've got traffic pretty backed up here with blocking the westbound lane.
01:03
We're going to go ahead and pull off the bridge since Truck 1 has a better vantage point.
01:09
Yeah, command copy.
01:11
Sounds like a good plan.
01:12
We'll just wait for Rescue Boat 21 to do more recon and just have companies from the shoreline.
01:17
Keep checking with conoculars.
01:19
Sounds like there's no good description from the TriMet video.
01:27
And you want to copy.
01:30
Truck one, copy, Matt.
01:34
Command for dispatch.
01:37
Okay, man, go ahead.
01:38
Yeah,
01:40
command from dispatch.
01:42
I sent a request for the officer that got the phone call to try to figure out who it was that called them.
01:47
It may have been a field officer that called them that had a video, so we're still trying to work on that.
01:54
Come back, coffee, thank you.
02:00
Engine 7-2, Medi-154, Priority 2, Delta, Allergic Reaction, Chestnut Lane, Apartments,
02:07
(number withheld), North East 6th Street, Number (number withheld),
02:10
Channels-Ops 1-2, 7-2, Medi-154, Priority 2, Delta,
02:16
Allergic Reaction, Chestnut Lane Apartments, (number withheld), Northe 6th Street, number (number withheld).
02:21
Talkerbop's 1 at 1603.
02:32
You boat 21 from truck 1.
02:37
Press, you vote 21?
02:39
Yeah, I missed some of the traffic because the train going through, but there is somebody on that east shoreline.
02:45
Have you checked that out, kind of down by the pillar of the overpass?
02:54
Yeah, are you talking about south of the bridge on the east bank?
02:59
Yeah, that's affirmative.
03:02
contact with him.
03:04
He's dry and he has shoes on.
03:05
It doesn't appear to be our subject.
03:10
Copy that.
03:14
One, engine 31, medic 1315, party two, delta breathing problem.
03:19
Meadowland, Oklahoma Park (number withheld)-Southeast Powell, number (number withheld).
03:23
Dr. Poppsohn F-105.
03:29
That was the one we were talking about earlier, and we also made contact with the RPs on the north side of the bridge on the east side as well.
03:42
Command copy.
03:44
Yeah, sounds like there's no better description of the jumper per dispatch.
03:52
Offs won from Rescue 31.
03:54
You can show Rescue 31 responding for Engine 31.
03:57
They're aware and quarters.
04:00
Rescue 31, cover that.
04:01
Thank you.
04:06
Where did one find those shoes? We know it was on the West End, but was it lower deck or top deck?
04:15
Top deck. It just didn't line with the five-mile-an-hour speed pylon in the water.
04:23
Okay, copy that, thank you.
04:29
Truck one and engine one from command.
04:32
I think we only need one of your units on scene.
04:35
So if one of you guys is in better position to clear, go ahead.
04:42
Yeah, truck one will stay.
04:44
We're on the West Bank Esplanade here.
04:54
28 and stunning.
04:58
16.07.
05:04
Committee 312 arrived.
05:07
2312, 1607.
05:13
Command from rescue boat 211.
05:16
Command. Command, go ahead.
05:20
Yeah, none of the RPs fit the description.
05:23
We'll go back over to the West Bank where one found the shoes and we'll do some scanning.
05:29
Did try not have any better information on whereabouts on the bridge? They had footage of the individual jumping.
05:40
At dispatch from command, did you copy, Rescue Boat 21? Was there a description on where on the bridge?
05:49
Command from dispatch, negative.
05:51
There was no description specifically where on the bridge, but we can do a callback and see if they can tell us where.
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Location mentioned:
Steel Bridge, N Steel Bridge, Portland, OR 97232
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