The City of Pasco awarded meritorious service medals to three police officers and two firefighters who saved a suicidal man who tried to jump off the Cable Bridge last spring.
The event unfolded on the morning of Saturday, May 4 last year.
Police said a 38-year-old man was outside the railing, sitting on the edge of the bridge when they arrived on scene. He was sitting at a point where it was a long drop to the rocky dike below.
Ofc. Jeff Cobb, who is trained for crisis responses, engaged the man in a conversation. Ofcs. Justin Greenhalgh and Saul Mendoza arrived to assist soon after. With Sgt. Brian Vaught, they discussed grabbing the man after being secured with rope.
Two Pasco firefighter/paramedics, Juan Sanchez and Mike Gibbon, were called to the scene because they had training with ropes and harnesses.