{"id":84562,"date":"2026-01-12T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84562\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:10:10","slug":"officers-save-woman-who-fell-in-pond-in-northampton-county-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84562\/","title":{"rendered":"Officers save woman who fell in pond in Northampton County, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Lehigh Township police officers are being lauded for rescuing an elderly woman who fell into a pond Sunday afternoon and called for help using her medical alert device.<\/p>\n<p>Township police posted on social media that officers were called about 2:30 p.m. to the 3400 block of West Walker Drive for a 911 pendant activation. Officers Anthony Stinemire and Elias Batihk found the woman in a pond, waving her hands for help.<\/p>\n<p>The woman told police she was cleaning her pond pump when she accidentally fell into the water. The two officers, along with a neighbor, were able to pull her out of the water and bring her to her home, police said.<\/p>\n<p>EMS arrived and took the woman to a nearby hospital for treatment. It was later determined that her body temperature fell to 88 degrees. The officers saved a life, the department said. Police noted the importance of people using the medical pendants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though the majority of pendant activations that we get are accidental, this incident is proof that they work and could quite possibly save a life,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Lehigh Township police officers are being lauded for rescuing an elderly woman who fell into a pond&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,202,182,139,432],"class_list":{"0":"post-84562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84562","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=84562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}