{"id":293051,"date":"2026-09-24T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293051\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:41:07","slug":"man-78-dies-after-tree-limb-falls-on-him-outside-lehigh-county-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293051\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 78, dies after tree limb falls on him outside Lehigh County home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 78-year-old man died Wednesday afternoon after a large tree limb fell on him outside his Upper Milford Township home.<\/p>\n<p>The man was working outdoors when the tree limb fell about 50 feet and hit him, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, where he was pronounced dead about 4:45 p.m. His cause of death was blunt-force injuries, with the manner accidental.<\/p>\n<p>Buglio said the man has been identified, but he will not be identifying him Thursday to let his family grieve privately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 78-year-old man died Wednesday afternoon after a large tree limb fell on him outside his Upper Milford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,182,139,28,432,49667],"class_list":["post-293051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-upper-milford-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293051","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=293051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}