{"id":204719,"date":"2026-05-28T19:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204719\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:18:08","slug":"man-dead-after-jumping-off-trestle-into-little-lehigh-creek-officials-say-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204719\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead after jumping off trestle into Little Lehigh Creek, officials say | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A man has died after jumping into the\u00a0Little Lehigh Creek in Allentown Thursday, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Capt. John Hammel with the Allentown Fire Department said a man jumped off the trestle on the 300 block of Basin Street into the Little Lehigh Creek and did not resurface.<\/p>\n<p>Police, fire, and dive team crews went into the water to search for him,\u00a0Hammel said.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"1 dead, after man jumps off trestle into Little Lehigh Creek 5-28-26\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a1878833bff4.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Mike Nester | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh County Coroner Dan Buglio confirmed one person is dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stick with 69 News and <a href=\"http:\/\/wfmz.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wfmz.com<\/a> for updates on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A man has died after jumping into the\u00a0Little Lehigh Creek in Allentown Thursday, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,644,121,120,90226,90225,26418],"class_list":["post-204719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-fire-department","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-dan-buglio","tag-john-hammel","tag-little-lehigh-creek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204719","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=204719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}