{"id":607725,"date":"2026-04-15T04:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/607725\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T04:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:36:09","slug":"hobart-building-evacuated-after-suspected-fire-or-gas-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/607725\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobart building evacuated after suspected fire or gas leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A building on Elizabeth Street in Hobart has been evacuated after a refrigeration gas leak was detected.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were called around 11:30am on Wednesday after a Triple Zero (000) call raised the alarm about a potential fire or gas leak.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters on scene found what is reported to be a pipe that had released refrigeration gas.<\/p>\n<p>The building was evacuated as a precaution and is now being ventilated.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>Collins Street has been closed while emergency services respond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are asked to avoid the area until further notice,\u201d a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The Tasmania Fire Service said further details would be provided when known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A building on Elizabeth Street in Hobart has been evacuated after a refrigeration gas leak was detected. Firefighters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-607725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}