{"id":117502,"date":"2026-02-18T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117502\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:38:12","slug":"sinkhole-opens-up-in-wilkes-barre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117502\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole opens up in Wilkes-Barre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A small sinkhole opened up in the south side of Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania American Water and UGI crews were seen near the intersection of Hanover and Carlisle Streets working on a three-foot-wide sinkhole.<\/p>\n<p>The front wheel of a garbage truck broke through the two-foot-deep sinkhole. The vehicle was able to get out.<\/p>\n<p>FOX56 crews were at the scene and saw water flowing into the sinkhole.<\/p>\n<p>Crews told FOX56 at the scene that this is a busy time of year for sinkhole and water main break issues.<\/p>\n<p>Workers also said they hope they won&#8217;t need to interrupt water service. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>There may be traffic delays as crews work on repairs. The sinkhole is just near the Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A small sinkhole opened up in the south side of Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-117502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117502","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=117502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}