LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. —\u00a0A 29-year-old man is recovering after a scary fall at a popular hiking spot in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n
Multiple crews responded to the area of Bear Rock along the Appalachian Trail in Heidelberg Township around 10:30 Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
Upon further investigation, crews discovered that the man fell sometime Saturday night and was not able to call for help.<\/p>\n
The man was then able to crawl his way back to his cell phone to dial 911 Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
That’s when crews came to his rescue using UTV’s to help pull him out.<\/p>\n
“They’re essential for getting in and out of this trail; it’s too tight for us to get fire trucks in there,” said Randy Metzger, Deputy Chief of Germansville Fire Department. “Rather than banging up these fire trucks, a UTV makes it a lot more accessible.”<\/p>\n
It took crews about two hours to rescue the man.<\/p>\n
He was transported to the hospital for his injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. —\u00a0A 29-year-old man is recovering after a scary fall at a popular hiking spot in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,433],"class_list":["post-275474","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\/275474","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=275474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}