{"id":118209,"date":"2026-02-19T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118209\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:20:10","slug":"gas-leak-on-east-emmaus-avenue-prompts-evacuations-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118209\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas leak on East Emmaus Avenue prompts evacuations \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published February 19. 2026 11:50AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">At approximately 8:28 a.m. Feb. 11, Salisbury Township Police Department officers and Eastern Salisbury Fire Department firefighters were dispatched to the 200 block of East Emmaus Avenue for a report of a gas leak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">No one was injured, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">On arrival Eastern Salisbury Fire Department Chief Ian Dodson found an active gas leak involving multiple homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Salisbury Township Police Department officers blocked off intersections in the area and emergency services evacuated the area. Natural gas and electric utility UGI was called and came to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Allentown police and firefighters assisted with operations at the border with Salisbury Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Salisbury Emergency Management coordinated action with all services operating at the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Salisbury Township School District alerted bus traffic in the area. School resource officers responded to assist near Salisbury High School, 500 E. Montgomery St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">East Emmaus Avenue was closed for several hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The area was reopened when residences and businesses were determined to be safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A damaged outdoor gas line was found to be the cause of the leak, according to authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published February 19. 2026 11:50AM At approximately 8:28 a.m. Feb. 11, Salisbury Township Police Department officers and Eastern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-118209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118209","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=118209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}