RIVERVIEW, Florida — Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputies pulled a man to safety from a narrow ledge above Interstate 75 after an early-morning crisis call, according to WWSB/ABC7 reporting.

WWSB reported that deputies were called around I-75 and Harvey Road on June 23 after reports that a man was threatening to take his own life. When deputies arrived, the outlet reported, they found him standing on a narrow ledge above the interstate and nearby water.

Deputies moved quickly on the overpass

According to WWSB, body-camera footage released by the sheriff’s office shows deputies reaching the man and pulling him to safety. ThinBlueNews is not naming the man and is not adding any medical or mental-health speculation beyond the public report.

No additional information about the man’s condition was immediately released in the WWSB report. The important public-safety detail is the response itself: deputies located a dangerous ledge situation, closed distance quickly and brought the person back from the edge.

A reminder to call for help before a moment becomes irreversible

For law-enforcement families and supporters, crisis rescues are often quiet examples of what deputies and officers are asked to do in the middle of the night: slow the moment down, protect life and work around real danger without turning a private crisis into a spectacle.

If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in the United States.

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Editorial note: Because this involved a reported mental-health crisis, ThinBlueNews used only the public source facts, avoided identifying the person in crisis, included the 988 resource and selected a wide body-camera frame rather than a close-up rescue frame for the featured image.