Traffic was backed up for about an hour Monday on the northbound Golden State (5) Freeway near downtown while firefighters escorted a possibly suicidal man off a fence on a freeway overpass.
Officers cleared the northbound lanes of the freeway near Cesar Chavez Avenue at 11:15 a.m. Firefighters set up giant inflated mattresses under the overpass and walked up ladders to talk the man down.
The incident ended before noon, when the man walked to safety down the ladder.
