{"id":100328,"date":"2026-01-30T02:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100328\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T02:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:49:06","slug":"homes-evacuated-after-gas-leak-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100328\/","title":{"rendered":"Homes evacuated after gas leak in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A struck gas line from one house along Ferdinand Street prompted evacuations of nearby homes.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Officials are investigating a gas leak in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n<p>According to Scranton Assistant Fire Chief Jack Davis, a call was reported around 7:30 p.m. Thursday for a struck gas line from one house along Ferdinand Street. When crews arrived, they found free-flowing gas off to the side of the house.<\/p>\n<p>UGI shut off the gas shortly after. Two other nearby homes had to evacuate and will be able to return soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two people living in the home where the gas leak started will be evacuated for a while until the gas line is repaired.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating the cause.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A struck gas line from one house along Ferdinand Street prompted evacuations of nearby homes. SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-100328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}