{"id":367642,"date":"2026-08-10T17:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367642\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:54:08","slug":"cape-coral-gas-leak-near-se-47th-terrace-cleared-after-evacuation-lee-county-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367642\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral gas leak near SE 47th Terrace cleared after evacuation | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 An excavator struck a natural gas line behind Merrick Seafood on Southeast 47th Terrace, causing a leak and prompting evacuations.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"cape coral gas leak\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>(Credit: Cape Coral Police Department)<\/p>\n<p>The Cape Coral Fire Department&#8217;s hazardous materials team responded along with TECO to mitigate the hazard. Surrounding businesses were asked to evacuate as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>The Cape Coral Police Department reported the leak in the 1300 block of Southeast 47th Street. Buildings on the south side of the 1200-1300 block of Southeast 47th Street and the north side of the 1200-1300 block of Southeast 47th Terrace were affected by the evacuation order.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"vlcsnap-2026-08-10-13h34m29s270.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The Cape Coral Fire Department said the hazard has been mitigated and the evacuation has been rescinded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 An excavator struck a natural gas line behind Merrick Seafood on Southeast 47th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,4469,28],"class_list":["post-367642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cape-coral-police-department","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367642","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=367642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}