{"id":62403,"date":"2025-11-20T18:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/62403\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:35:09","slug":"utility-crew-hits-gas-main-sewer-line-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/62403\/","title":{"rendered":"Utility crew hits gas main, sewer line in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) &#8211; A gas leak was reported on Thursday after a utility crew hit a gas main and sewer main while digging at Kerr Street and Cleveland Avenue, Long Beach Fire Chief Griff Skellie confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Skellie said crews were initially concerned that gas was getting into the sewer line, but H2O, the city\u2019s utility contractor, was able to open manhole covers and ventilate the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The gas is currently dissipating, according to Skellie. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The area is near several restaurants, but the businesses are not impacted. There is also no evacuation at this time, but that area of the roadway is closed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in this story? Report it to our team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/page\/error-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WLOX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) &#8211; A gas leak was reported on Thursday after a utility crew hit a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[37714,12547,37710,37709,37708,37712,37713,131,37715,133,132,37711],"class_list":{"0":"post-62403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-cleveland-avenue","9":"tag-gas-leak","10":"tag-gas-line","11":"tag-gas-smell","12":"tag-h20","13":"tag-highway-90","14":"tag-kerr-street","15":"tag-long-beach","16":"tag-long-beach-fire-chief-griff-skellie","17":"tag-long-beach-headlines","18":"tag-long-beach-news","19":"tag-sewer-line"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}