{"id":148288,"date":"2026-03-25T18:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148288\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:37:09","slug":"people-advised-to-shelter-in-place-as-police-in-tactical-gear-respond-to-incident-in-part-of-lower-saucon-twp-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148288\/","title":{"rendered":"People advised to shelter in place as police in tactical gear respond to incident in part of Lower Saucon Twp. | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L. SAUCON TWP., Pa. &#8211; People are being asked to shelter in place, as police in tactical gear responded to an incident in part of Lower Saucon Township, Northampton County Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police have the road shut down at the 2400 block of Applebutter Road, amid a report of a barricade situation.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, Northampton County Emergency Management Services said police are advising people within 1\/2 mile of the area to shelter in place until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>People are advised to stay away from all doors and windows. A message will be sent when the shelter in place is lifted, Northampton County Emergency Management Services said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not yet confirmed details of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L. SAUCON TWP., Pa. &#8211; People are being asked to shelter in place, as police in tactical gear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-148288","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\/148288","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=148288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}