MACUNGIE, Pa. – A contractor struck an underground gas line Tuesday afternoon, triggering a leak and prompting temporary evacuations in a Macungie neighborhood.<\/p>\n
UGI spokesperson John Mason tells 69 News the crew \u2014 not affiliated with UGI \u2014 was digging near 2074 Rolling Meadow Road around 3 p.m. when they hit the line.<\/p>\n
As a safety precaution, UGI shut off natural gas to the road, and electricity was also cut, which Mason says is standard procedure during a gas leak.<\/p>\n
UGI says about 20 customers were affected, and 10 to 11 residents were evacuated while crews worked to secure the area.<\/p>\n
By 7 p.m., all residents had been cleared to return home and power was restored, though repair work on the damaged line continued into the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MACUNGIE, Pa. – A contractor struck an underground gas line Tuesday afternoon, triggering a leak and prompting temporary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,48212,26030,19144,36660,2753,20374,15968,64101],"class_list":["post-209055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-contractor","tag-emergency-response","tag-evacuation","tag-gas-leak","tag-macungie","tag-natural-gas","tag-ugi","tag-utility-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209055","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=209055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}