EAST PENN TWP., Pa. – A superintendent from a school district in New York said a sixth-grade student is dead after a rafting accident in\u00a0Carbon County Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Superintendent\u00a0Jeff Nichols of the\u00a0Sag Harbor School District confirmed the passing of the student, stating “There are no words to adequately express the depth of this loss.”<\/p>\n
The student was a “cherished member of our school family, a child who mattered deeply to all who had the privilege of knowing him,” Nichols said.\u00a0“His absence will leave an irreplaceable space in our classrooms, our hallways, and our lives.”<\/p>\n
Nichols said the district is offering counseling services to students.<\/p>\n
In a news release about the child’s death, the\u00a0Carbon County Coroner’s Office said it responded to the area of the D&L Trail at mile marker 99 along the Lehigh River in East Penn Township, Carbon County for a reported drowning.<\/p>\n
The coroner’s office said the 12-year-old child had already been removed from the water before its arrival. The child was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday to determine the cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n
Crews ended the search Wednesday for the student. Authorities tell us this happened when the person was rafting with a large group.<\/p>\n
A large group were rafting Wednesday\u00a0around 5 p.m. At some point, the raft flipped over.<\/p>\n
Video from the scene shows multiple agencies searching on land and in the river for the person who fell into the water.<\/p>\n
A raft can be seen on its side in the water up against a downed tree, reading that it’s from the “Whitewater Rafting Adventures” in Nesquehoning.<\/p>\n
The coroner’s office and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission are investigating the death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST PENN TWP., Pa. – A superintendent from a school district in New York said a sixth-grade student…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,90130,2776],"class_list":["post-204455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-east-penn-township","tag-lehigh-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204455","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=204455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}