{"id":309388,"date":"2026-10-18T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309388\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:28:10","slug":"lower-saucon-area-warned-about-upcoming-blast-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309388\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Saucon area warned about upcoming blast training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lower Saucon Township police are alerting residents that they may hear loud blasts beginning Monday and lasting through Thursday, but it is no cause for alarm.<\/p>\n<p>The noise will be coming from the Bethlehem Police Department gun range on Riverside Drive, and is part of a pre-scheduled FBI post-blast training session, according to a police advisory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultiple loud blasts may be heard\u201d during the training, according to the advisory.<\/p>\n<p>The anticipated training schedule is:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Monday, 23 shots beginning around noon. This will be the most extensive day of training.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Tuesday, four shots, beginning about 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Wednesday, four shots, beginning about 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Thursday, four shots, beginning about 10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lower Saucon Township police are alerting residents that they may hear loud blasts beginning Monday and lasting through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,202,182,205,139,434,28,432],"class_list":["post-309388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-lower-saucon-township","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309388","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=309388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}