{"id":310764,"date":"2026-10-20T19:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310764\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:58:06","slug":"police-man-fell-down-archbald-pothole-trying-to-pick-up-litter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310764\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Man fell down Archbald Pothole trying to pick up litter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 60s was OK Tuesday after falling roughly half-way down the 38-foot-deep hole<\/p>\n<p>ARCHBALD, Pa. \u2014 A man in his 60s tumbled down deep hole a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> state park Tuesday while trying to pick up some litter, Archbald Police Chief Tim Trently said.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who wasn&#8217;t identified, suffered a back back injury but was otherwise OK after falling down just after noon at Archbald Pothole State Park.<\/p>\n<p>The pothole is a 38-foot-deep hole carved out by glaciers 15,000 years ago. The man fell down about half-way after leaning over the fence to pick up litter, the police chief said.<\/p>\n<p>First responders from across Lackawanna County spent roughly an 1\u00bd hours using ropes to get him out of the hole and into a hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 60s was OK Tuesday after falling roughly half-way down the 38-foot-deep hole ARCHBALD, Pa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-310764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310764","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=310764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}