{"id":192775,"date":"2026-05-14T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192775\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:55:09","slug":"man-2-dogs-rescued-from-back-of-garbage-truck-in-palmer-twp-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192775\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 2 dogs rescued from back of garbage truck in Palmer Twp. | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PALMER TWP., Pa. &#8211; Police in Palmer Township, Northampton County say a man and two dogs were rescued from the back of a garbage truck Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Crews responded to a parking lot along the 3700 block of Nicholas Street shortly after 5 a.m., according to Palmer Township Police Sgt. Tyson Unangst.<\/p>\n<p>Unangst said the man and two dogs were inside of a dumpster when the garbage truck picked up the dumpster and placed them into the garbage truck.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the garbage truck called 911 after hearing a man yelling for help, Unangst said.<\/p>\n<p>Township police said the man was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Unangst said the dogs had no injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALMER TWP., Pa. &#8211; Police in Palmer Township, Northampton County say a man and two dogs were rescued&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,9356,12879,434,2182,206,812],"class_list":["post-192775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-dogs","tag-garbage-truck","tag-northampton-county","tag-palmer-township","tag-police","tag-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192775","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=192775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}