{"id":101754,"date":"2026-01-31T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101754\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:00:06","slug":"pa-american-water-responds-to-major-water-main-break-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101754\/","title":{"rendered":"PA American Water responds to major water main break in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON \u2014 Pennsylvania American Water is responding to a large water main break which closed traffic from North Washington Avenue to Madison Avenue, Myrtle Street to Ash Street and the 400 block of South Street.<\/p>\n<p>At 1:15 p.m., Emergency Management Coordinator John Judge said PA American Water crews had just arrived at the scene and were being assisted by the city\u2019s Department of Public Works.<\/p>\n<p>Judge said the situation was still being evaluated. He emphasized that any repairs necessitated by the break would be the responsibility of PA American Water.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story, check back for updates\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2014 Pennsylvania American Water is responding to a large water main break which closed traffic from North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-101754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101754","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=101754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}