{"id":6631,"date":"2025-10-16T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/6631\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:34:07","slug":"gas-leak-at-nova-southeastern-university-forces-evacuations-temporary-road-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/6631\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas leak at Nova Southeastern University forces evacuations, temporary road closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0October 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM<\/p>\n<p>Students, staff evacuate after gas leak confirmed at Nova South Eastern University in Davie  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DAVIE, Fla.  \u2014 Fire rescue crews responded to Nova Southeastern University in Davie on Thursday morning after a confirmed gas leak on campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sky 10 flew over the scene around 9:45 a.m., where Davie Fire Rescue units could be seen outside the university at 3300 South University Dr. Students and employees were evacuated as crews investigated and worked to repair the leak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Davie Fire Rescue, the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office, and Hollywood\u2019s HazMat team also responded to an active gas leak at 3270 South University Dr., near the Terry Administration Building, after a 2-inch gas line was struck by a backhoe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said University Drive was temporarily shut down in both directions from about 30th Street to 36th Street while crews worked to secure the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials said the building and surrounding area were safely evacuated, the leak has been stopped, and the road has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No injuries have been reported at this time. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM Updated:\u00a0October 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM Students, staff evacuate after gas leak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-6631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631","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=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}