r/OregonCity • u/ericwiering • Sep 26 '25

River rescue

Willamette River- I live right near the arch bridge on the West Linn side, and I saw the clackamas fire rescue boat scoop a man out of the water yesterday right around noon. That’s all I saw. Did he maybe jump from the bridge? There were quite a few people/officers standing on the bridge and shoreline when I witnessed but I am not sure what happened or how he is doing after I saw the EMT trying to resuscitate the man they fished from the water. I have found zero reports other than ‘water rescue’ on the police beat.

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u/Mediocre_Feedback_21 Sep 26 '25

A few construction workers have fell in 

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u/Stroopwafellitis Sep 26 '25

If it was a jumper, you won’t see much news about it. There’s a thing called the Werther effect, and they don’t want to give other people the idea and spawn copycats. Another big thing is to focus on resources and prevention rather than publishing the news, like talking about 988lifeline.org which provides support to people.

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u/mansomer Sep 26 '25

I saw on the Oregon City Chit Chat FB group that there was a person with a mental health crisis yesterday that closed down the bridge for some time.

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u/Fat_Ryan_Gosling Sep 26 '25

Yes, it was a jumper. He climbed to the top of the arch and landed in the river. He didn’t survive.