{"id":103955,"date":"2026-02-03T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103955\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:35:09","slug":"residents-return-home-after-gas-leak-in-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103955\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents return home after gas leak in Reading | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8212; Residents returned to their homes after a gas leak forced evacuations in Reading on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>UGI crews worked to repair the 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>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<p>The Red Cross said its volunteers served 36 people at an\u00a0emergency shelter at\u00a0Northwest Middle School on\u00a01000 North Front St. in Reading for those temporarily displaced. The shelter has since closed.<\/p>\n<p>Evacuation orders were lifted overnight, and residents were able to return home, the Red Cross said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone in need of Red Cross assistance should call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8212; Residents returned to their homes after a gas leak forced evacuations in Reading on Monday&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":["post-103955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103955","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=103955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103955\/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=103955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}