A 10-hour standoff in Summit Hill ended just after 11:30 this morning.

Police said the call came in for a suicidal person on East Richards Street around 1 a.m.

During the morning, police set off three flash grenades as the man was barricaded inside.

They set off a round of tear gas and then went in to escort the man safely out of the house.

Negotiators could be heard talking to a man named Freddy.

The state police Special Emergency Response Team was on scene, with local police and state troopers standing back doing crowd control.

North Chestnut at the Route 902 intersection, as well as Lehigh, and the intersection of East Fell and Oak streets were blocked off by police units during the event.

Police from Summit Hill, Jim Thorpe, and other units were on scene.

At 10 a.m., The man's parents arrived on scene to talk to him.

Dennis Kergick, superintendent of Panther Valley School District, said this morning that he received a call from one of the district's transportation companies regarding police activity around 7 a.m.

He said some buses may have had to be rerouted due to the incident taking place.

This isn't the first time police were called for a suicidal person on East Richards Street.

According to a previous article published in the Times News, in December 2012, police responded to an early morning standoff with a man threatening to blow up his home after he opened valves to propane tanks outside his property.

Residents in the surrounding blocks were evacuated as a result. The man in the 2012 standoff was eventually taken into custody without incident.