{"id":84824,"date":"2026-01-12T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84824\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:59:12","slug":"police-rescue-elderly-woman-from-icy-pond-in-northampton-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84824\/","title":{"rendered":"Police rescue elderly woman from icy pond in Northampton Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkbf43im000e01tflehcra18@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A pair of police officers in Northampton County are being hailed as heroes after rescuing an elderly woman who fell into an icy pond Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkbf4863000i357vxmnegsvr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">It was just after 2:30 p.m. when police said they were dispatched to the 3400 block of West Walker Drive in Lehigh Township for a 911 medical pendant activation.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkbf486i000j357v4vkmjkzr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">When they arrived, officers found an elderly woman waving her arms in the air. She had fallen into the water while cleaning a pond pump.With the help of a neighbor, police said the two officers were able to pull the woman from the cold water.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkbf486n000k357v9618x5iu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">She was taken to the hospital, where police said they learned her body temperature had dropped to 88 degrees.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkbf486v000l357v2102s64v@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Police said this incident shows the importance of elderly family members utilizing medical pendants. They said this case is proof they work and could save a life.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: Getty Images\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A pair of police officers in Northampton County are being hailed as heroes after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-84824","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84824","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=84824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}