{"id":392289,"date":"2026-09-06T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392289\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T18:00:16","slug":"downtown-st-pete-streets-flooded-from-water-main-break-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392289\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown St. Pete streets flooded from water main break: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Streets in downtown St. Pete are flooded due to a water main break, St. Petersburg Police announced Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 12-inch water main pipe broke, causing flooding that spans Central Ave, 1st Avenue North and 16th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SPD says crews are on-site working on repairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police urge drivers to take alternate routes to avoid the flooding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No timeline for reopening was immediately provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Streets in downtown St. Pete are flooded due to a water main break, St. Petersburg Police announced Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200,18405,156662],"class_list":["post-392289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-st-petersburg-police","tag-tampa-bay-news-streets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392289","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=392289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}