{"id":103541,"date":"2026-02-03T04:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103541\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:15:09","slug":"gas-leak-prompts-evacuation-of-40-people-in-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103541\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas leak prompts evacuation of 40 people in Reading | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8212; Emergency responders were on the scene of a gas leak in Reading on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>UGI crews were working on an active gas leak in the 100 block of West Douglass Street, according to a UGI spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Forty people were evacuated, UGI said. It was not yet determined how many homes were impacted.<\/p>\n<p>A warming shelter was set up for those temporarily displaced.<\/p>\n<p>Officials also cut electricity in the area as crews worked. More than 800 customers were without power in the area, according to MetEd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8212; Emergency responders were on the scene of a gas leak in Reading on Monday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-103541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-reading-city","10":"tag-reading-city-headlines","11":"tag-reading-city-news","12":"tag-reading-area"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103541","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=103541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}