{"id":267380,"date":"2026-05-12T00:49:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267380\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T00:49:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:49:51","slug":"gas-leak-causing-road-closure-on-westshore-boulevard-in-tampa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267380\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas leak causing road closure on Westshore Boulevard in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A gas leak is causing traffic to be diverted from S Westshore Boulevard in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tampa police say construction workers hit a TECO natural gas line, causing a leak at the intersection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/W+El+Prado+Blvd+%2526+S+Westshore+Blvd,+Tampa,+FL+33629\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x88c2c2d2e29daeb1:0x18dc2d0365b2f01f?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:S Westshore and W El Prado boulevards.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;S Westshore and W El Prado boulevards.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">S Westshore and W El Prado boulevards.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tampa Electric crews are working to repair the gas leak as Tampa police divert traffic from the area. Tampa Fire Rescue is also on scene to supervise for safety issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gas leak is causing traffic to be diverted from S Westshore Boulevard in Tampa. Tampa police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[73821,114996,135,6417,137,136,9822],"class_list":["post-267380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-gas-leak","tag-s-westshore","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-fire-rescue","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}