YOUNGSTOWN A 13-year-old girl is in stable condition after falling from a bridge into the Mahoning River early Wednesday morning while attempting to retrieve a hat.

Youngstown police and fire crews responded to the area of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Fifth Avenue shortly after midnight following reports of a female screaming near the bridge.

Officers searching the area under the bridge, known locally as the "Peanut Bridge," discovered two people on the riverbank holding the teen. The bystanders told police they went down the bank and pulled the girl from the water after she fell.

According to the police report, the teen told officers she was walking downtown to view the scenery when her hat blew off. She attempted to catch the hat, slipped, and fell from the top of the bridge into the river.

Two people passing nearby, whom the police call "Good Samaritans", heard the girl screaming and pulled her out of the river.

Firefighters used a rope and pulley to pull the victim up the snow-covered embankment, across railroad tracks, before lifting her fifteen feet onto the bridge.

Battalion Fire Chief John Lightley says quick action from both the passerby and firefighters helped get the teen to safety.

 "Crews did a great job. Got her to an ambulance, and she'll be treated for injuries,” said Lightly. “We don't know how she may have come to be in the water. But thanks to quick thinking by the passersby, as well as good, solid response from the fire crews. The woman is on her way to treatment at this time."

Authorities noted temperatures were below freezing at the time of the incident. She was taken to Mercy Health on Belmont Avenue and listed in stable condition.

While emergency crews were transporting the teen, police received a separate call at 12:43 a.m. from a resident on West Boston Avenue reporting a runaway juvenile. The description matched the teen rescued from the river. Police contacted the mother, who met her daughter at the hospital.