Police and firefighters worked into the morning today to clear city streets of deliriously happy Pittsburgh Steelers fans and to douse fires set by students in Oakland celebrating the team's record sixth Super Bowl victory.
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The crowd thinned out by 11:30 p.m., but those who remained were unruly. They trashed the bus shelter at Forbes and Bigelow, overturned refuse cans along their route, and started a huge bonfire on Forbes Avenue near the Hillman Library.
Another large fire was reported on Oakland Avenue near Sennott Street, and a third was burning on Atwood, where the crowd was trying to push a car into the blaze. Before the game ended, the UPMC Sports Center on the South Side was filled with police officers, eyes glued to several television sets while they waited to be deployed. They were some of the 400 officers on duty last night to temper potentially unruly crowds, post barricades, arrest the disorderly and keep the peace.
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The rowdiness had begun at halftime, when hundreds of people poured out of the Rex Theatre on East Carson, celebrating James Harrison's 100-yard interception return for a touchdown. The score gave the hometown favorites a 17-7 lead with half the game left.
Some of the revelers from the Rex stampeded in front of a 51C Port Authority bus and began rocking it and banging on the windows. One man scaled the bus and celebrated atop it, and about a dozen other people followed his lead.
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