{"id":148314,"date":"2026-03-25T19:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148314\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:05:08","slug":"lower-saucon-residents-told-to-shelter-in-place-saucon-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148314\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Saucon Residents Told to Shelter in Place \u2013 Saucon Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unfolding police situation in the 2400 block of Applebutter Road in Lower Saucon Township Wednesday led public safety officials to issue a shelter in place advisory for nearby residents.<\/p>\n<p>Northampton County Emergency Management Services said an alert was issued at 11:34 a.m. to residents within half a mile of where the police activity was occurring, advising them to stay away from windows and doors.<\/p>\n<p>Applebutter Road was also closed to traffic in that area, which is near the Bethlehem Landfill.<\/p>\n<p>County EMA officials said a notification would be issued when the shelter in place advisory is lifted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/northampton-county\/bethlehem-area\/people-advised-to-shelter-in-place-as-police-in-tactical-gear-respond-to-incident-in\/article_4a1269a5-ac6d-4eab-9ea5-0d17e70f0edf.html#tncms-source=Homepage-Top-Stories\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Channel 69 News reported<\/a> that police had responded to a \u201creport of a barricade situation,\u201d which they said was unconfirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unfolding police situation in the 2400 block of Applebutter Road in Lower Saucon Township Wednesday led public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[67586,153,155,154,205,434,206,10955],"class_list":["post-148314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-applebutter-road","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lower-saucon-township","tag-northampton-county","tag-police","tag-shelter-in-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148314","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=148314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}