{"id":39972,"date":"2018-12-17T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/woman-nearly-jumps-from-douglas-bridge\/"},"modified":"2018-12-17T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T21:30:24","slug":"woman-nearly-jumps-from-douglas-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/woman-nearly-jumps-from-douglas-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman nearly jumps from Douglas Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authorities helped get a woman down from the edge of the Douglas Bridge on Sunday night after she nearly jumped off, according to a Juneau Police Department <\/a>release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At about 7 p.m. Sunday, a JPD officer was driving across the bridge and noticed a car was stopped. The car belonged to a concerned citizen who had stopped to check on a young woman who was holding on from the outside of the railing, according to the release. The woman was “in crisis,” police say.<\/p>\n

The woman nearly jumped from the bridge, the release states, but the officer grabbed her and held on. More officers arrived, as did personnel from Capital City Fire\/Rescue and the U.S. Coast Guard. JPD and CCFR responders were able to get the woman safely away from the railing. She was then taken away for a medical evaluation, police say. <\/p>\n

Traffic flow on the bridge was stopped for a while and was restored shortly afterward. In the wake of this situation, police are reminding people that while the holidays are joyous for some, they are very difficult for others.<\/p>\n

“The Juneau Police Department would like to remind you to be gracious to others and look for opportunities to carry other’s burdens,” the release stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The woman was ‘in crisis,’ police said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":39975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[92,89,75,142],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-39972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-capital-city-fire-rescue","tag-juneau-police-department","tag-local-news","tag-u-s-coast-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39972"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=39972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}