{"id":14118,"date":"2025-10-24T21:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/14118\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T21:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:33:20","slug":"police-bethlehem-man-dies-in-200-ft-fall-at-lost-trails-in-lackawanna-county-bethelehm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/14118\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Bethlehem man dies in 200-ft fall at Lost Trails in Lackawanna County | Bethelehm Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A man from the Lehigh Valley died in a fall at a popular hiking spot in Lackawanna County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, police and emergency responders were dispatched to the area of\u00a0 the \u201cLost Trails\u201d on Dunham Drive in Dunmore for the report of a male who had been missing since the prior evening, according to the press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Family and friends of the male had gathered in the area, while others continued along the trails in search of the man, Dunmore Borough police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials say at approximately 3:45 p.m., a body was reported to be approximately 200 feet below a cliff, commonly referred to as \u201cTop of the World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators were able to identify him as Zackary Caflin of Bethlehem, based on his clothing, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives of the Dunmore Police investigated the incident and were able to rule out foul play or a deliberate act.<\/p>\n<p>This incident was an accident, according to the press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A man from the Lehigh Valley died in a fall at a popular hiking spot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-14118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118","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=14118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}