{"id":110208,"date":"2026-02-10T17:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/110208\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:31:19","slug":"remembering-2011-deadly-natural-gas-explosion-in-allentown-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/110208\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering 2011 deadly natural gas explosion in Allentown | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Thursday\u00a0night&#8217;s blast in Pottstown is similar to a natural gas explosion that happened in Allentown more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>That one rocked the city in February 2011 on 13th and Allen streets.<\/p>\n<p>It leveled eight homes and killed five people, including a teenage mother and her baby.<\/p>\n<p>After more than a year of investigating, authorities found that UGI failed to see that the gas line needed repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the company has been replacing the old, cast iron pipes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Thursday\u00a0night&#8217;s blast in Pottstown is similar to a natural gas explosion that happened in Allentown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,28,15794],"class_list":{"0":"post-110208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pottstown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110208","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=110208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}