BETHLEHEM, PA \u2014 A missing autistic juvenile was rescued from the Lehigh River on March 3 after a resident reported hearing cries for help.<\/p>\n
Officers with the Bethlehem Police Department responded to a residence at approximately 7:15 p.m. for a report of a missing juvenile female.<\/p>\n
The juvenile\u2019s mother reported that her daughter had last been seen at approximately 6:30 p.m. inside the residence before she was discovered missing.<\/p>\n
The juvenile was described as autistic and had no prior history of running away.<\/p>\n
While officers were gathering information and searching the surrounding area, police received a separate report from a resident on Brighton Street who stated they could hear a female screaming for help in the vicinity of Riverside Drive near the railroad trestle.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to the area and began searching along both sides of the Lehigh River, including areas near the Fahy Bridge and Hill-to-Hill Bridge.<\/p>\n
Officers were able to hear the calls for help and continued to narrow the location.<\/p>\n
An officer ultimately located the juvenile underneath the railroad trestle near the river.<\/p>\n
The Bethlehem Fire Department water rescue team responded and successfully rescued the juvenile from the river area.<\/p>\n
Bethlehem EMS then transported the juvenile to a local hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, PA \u2014 A missing autistic juvenile was rescued from the Lehigh River on March 3 after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-129895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}