{"id":281463,"date":"2026-05-22T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/281463\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:22:07","slug":"gas-leak-forces-evacuation-at-martin-county-shopping-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/281463\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas leak forces evacuation at Martin County shopping plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PALM CITY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A propane leak inside a restaurant at Martin Downs Village Center prompted evacuations and a hazmat response Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The hazmat team with <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/search?find=Martin+County+Fire+Rescue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Martin County Fire Rescue<\/a> says they responded to Martin Downs Village Center just after 8 a.m. on Friday for reports of a gas leak.<\/p>\n<p>The caller told dispatch that a gasoline odor was coming from a business in the plaza, prompting crews to shut off the gas, evacuate the buildings, and ventilate the structures.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/wrong-way-driver-killed-in-head-on-crash-with-semi-truck-carrying-corn-in-belle-glade-belle-glade-crash-wrong-way-crash-fatal-crash-semi-truck-crash-head-on-collision-pbso-palm-beach-county-crash-belle-glade-news-fatal-accident-nissan-altima\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wrong-way driver killed in head-on crash with semi truck carrying corn in Belle Glade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crews reportedly found a propane leak inside Fantini&#8217;s Fusion Kitchen and cleared the threat.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters say no one was hurt or transported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALM CITY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A propane leak inside a restaurant at Martin Downs Village Center prompted evacuations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-281463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281463","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=281463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}