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MLB Umpire John Tumpane Saves Woman Attempting Suicide on Pittsburgh Bridge

Major League Baseball umpire John Tumpane reportedly saved a woman from a railing on the Roberto Clemente Bridge Wednesday afternoon.

According to Stephen J. Nesbitt and Steph Chambers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tumpane saw a woman climbing over a railing above the Allegheny River and went over and "locked both arms around her back."

"At times, she dangled both feet off the bridge's edge, putting her full weight in his arms," Nesbitt and Chambers wrote, but he prevented her from falling to the river until police and an ambulance arrived and helped lift her back over the railing.