{"id":224608,"date":"2026-06-21T22:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/224608\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T22:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:55:10","slug":"crews-pull-person-from-river-in-easton-after-hour-long-search-easton-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/224608\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews pull person from river in Easton after hour-long search | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASTON, Pa. &#8211; Crews were on the water in Easton on Sunday searching for a missing swimmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Northampton County Communications says a call came in at 4:41 p.m. for a reported drowning in the Lehigh River near the 100 block of Larry Holmes Drive.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly an hour of searching, crews pulled the person from the water at 5:39 p.m..<\/p>\n<p>The person was then brought to shore and placed on a stretcher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At this point, officials have not released information about the person&#8217;s condition or what led up to the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Stick with 69 News for updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. &#8211; Crews were on the water in Easton on Sunday searching for a missing swimmer.\u00a0 Northampton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,3418,2181,26030,20842,2776,434,97537,84097],"class_list":["post-224608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-drowning","tag-easton","tag-emergency-response","tag-larry-holmes-drive","tag-lehigh-river","tag-northampton-county","tag-river-accident","tag-water-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224608","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=224608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}