{"id":275444,"date":"2026-08-30T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275444\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T22:36:10","slug":"ems-rescuing-hiker-who-fell-off-appalachian-trail-overlook-in-lehigh-county-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275444\/","title":{"rendered":"EMS rescuing hiker who fell off Appalachian Trail overlook in Lehigh County | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. &#8212; EMS crews are rescuing a 29-year-old man who fell off an overlook on the Appalachian Trail Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the man, who fell off the Bear Rocks rock scramble in Lynn Township, climbed back up the formation to call 911 Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>First responders were sent to the scene around 10:30 a.m., according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>EMS crews from New Tripoli, Germansville, Lynnport, and Weisenberg are working to rescue the man.<\/p>\n<p>His condition is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Stick with 69 News on the web and on air for the latest updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. &#8212; EMS crews are rescuing a 29-year-old man who fell off an overlook on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,433],"class_list":["post-275444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275444","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=275444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}