{"id":204551,"date":"2026-05-28T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204551\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:33:08","slug":"12-year-old-boy-dies-after-raft-capsized-in-lehigh-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204551\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old boy dies after raft capsized in Lehigh River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0036C6.MXF_00.16.00.10_1530806524993_5758850_ver1.0_640_360.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">CARBON COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; Tragedy on the water left a 12-year-old boy dead in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, this week.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Emergency crews responded to reports of a drowning near the D&amp;L Trail along the Lehigh River on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A 12-year-old boy was removed from the water by a dive team, and was pronounced dead a short time later.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials say the boy was on a raft with a large party of boaters when the raft capsized, sparking a search in the water.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities have yet to release the boy&#8217;s name, along with any further details about his death.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">An autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death is scheduled for Thursday. An investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from this article was provided by the Carbon County Coroner&#8217;s Office and Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article CARBON COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; Tragedy on the water left a 12-year-old boy dead in Carbon County, Pennsylvania,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[139,539,178,180,179,593],"class_list":["post-204551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204551","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=204551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}