UPPER BETHEL TWP., Pa. – Monday night several first responders in Northampton County are being honored for their tireless search efforts to find a missing girl.<\/p>\n
The teen was brought home safe thanks to the group of volunteers.<\/p>\n
Upper Mount Bethel Township’s Board of Supervisors is recognizing this group of first responders for searching through the night early last month to find this missing teenage girl.<\/p>\n
“It was about 9:30 at night on April 2nd we were called to assist the state police with a search for a missing juvenile,” says Thomas Austin, Battalion Chief for North Bangor Fire Company.<\/p>\n
The search continued into the night drone teams were dispatched as well as other units to try and locate the lost girl.<\/p>\n
“We brought in some K-9’s helped coordinate everybody, we brought in some other search and rescue teams that we do mutual assist with,” says Chief of Wolfpack Search and Recovery Susan Narkin.<\/p>\n
Around 120 emergency personnel were a part of the search that lasted over sixteen hours.<\/p>\n
Crews canvassed woods and fields across North Bangor on a cold April night.<\/p>\n
Battalion Chief Thomas Austin helped lead the entire operation.<\/p>\n
“Two main thoughts in my head, right? I wanna find this little girl and I wanna find her safe and sound and I want my teams out there to be successful and be safe as well. It was about 1:30 in the afternoon Friday that the juvenile was found was located and was doing well,” says Austin.<\/p>\n
Tuesday’s ceremony giving thanks to these first responders for their work that night and the work they do each and every day.<\/p>\n
“A lot goes unnoticed with us so for the time we get away from our families it really means a lot to us,” says Noah Wilder, Captain of North Bangor Fire Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER BETHEL TWP., Pa. – Monday night several first responders in Northampton County are being honored for their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,82581,51985,13068,82582,15057,82580,82583,36559,12281,4345],"class_list":["post-184943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-drone-teams","tag-emergency-personnel","tag-first-responders","tag-k-9-units","tag-missing-girl","tag-north-bangor-fire-company","tag-recognition-ceremony","tag-search-and-rescue","tag-upper-mount-bethel-township","tag-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184943","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=184943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}