A gas leak late Saturday night forced the evacuation of an Exeter Township neighborhood, according to police.<\/p>\n
Exeter police gave this account:<\/p>\n
Just before midnight, police received a report of a possible gas leak in the 1300 block of Claire Drive for a report of a possible gas leak. UGI Utilities Inc. representatives confirmed it was an active gas leak.<\/p>\n
As a precaution, police and members of the Exeter Township Volunteer Fire Department conducted door-to-door notifications and had residents evacuated residents from homes along Claire Drive and Budd Street. The affected neighborhood is south of Route 422 in the eastern end of the township.<\/p>\n
Township Emergency Management Coordinators established a temporary shelter for displaced residents at the Dunn Community Center while UGI worked to address the leak and secure the area.<\/p>\n
The area was determined to be safe shortly after 3 a.m. Power was restored to the affected area, and residents were able to return to their homes.UGI is providing space heaters to residents who remain without gas service as repairs continue.<\/p>\n
No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gas leak late Saturday night forced the evacuation of an Exeter Township neighborhood, according to police. Exeter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-102281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102281","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=102281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}