{"id":429719,"date":"2026-10-16T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429719\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:28:10","slug":"major-gas-leak-after-excavator-hits-gas-line-near-turnpike-that-runs-from-florida-to-texas-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429719\/","title":{"rendered":"Major gas leak after excavator hits gas line near Turnpike that runs from Florida to Texas \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crews responded to a major gas leak after an excavator struck a gas line in Hollywood on Friday, closing a stretch of the Florida&#8217;s Turnpike for several hours, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened shortly before 11 a.m. in the area of N. 62nd Avenue and Arthur Street when a main gas line running the length of the Turnpike was struck by an excavator, Hollywood Fire Rescue officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said it caused a major gas leak and led to the closure of the northbound lanes of the Turnpike Turnpike from Hollywood Boulevard to Griffin Road.<\/p>\n<p>The Turnpike was reopened a few hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the natural gas line runs from South Florida to Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Aerial footage from Chopper 6 showed the excavator at the scene as gas and dust billowed into the air.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/101626-Hollywood-gas-leak.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Crews were responding to a major gas leak after an excavator struck a gas line in Hollywood on Friday, officials said.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tNBC6NBC6<\/p>\n<p>Crews were responding to a major gas leak after an excavator struck a gas line in Hollywood on Friday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said they were waiting for the gas provider to arrive and begin repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Some people who live nearby including residents of an elder facility were evacuated as a precaution, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>No other information was immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Check back with NBC6 for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews responded to a major gas leak after an excavator struck a gas line in Hollywood on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,686],"class_list":["post-429719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429719","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=429719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}