{"id":235745,"date":"2026-07-05T00:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235745\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T00:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:48:08","slug":"shaler-township-roads-blocked-closed-due-to-storm-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235745\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaler Township roads blocked, closed due to storm damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDowned trees and wires led to roads in Shaler Township being blocked off and closed on the Fourth of July.The Shaler Township Police Department said in a post on Facebook that Wetzel Road remains closed between Little Pine Creek Road and Wible Run Road due to a tree and wires down.As of 6 p.m., drivers were asked to continue avoiding the area. The department also said that in the 1000 block of Anderson Road, one lane was blocked by a fallen tree limb. (Photo below)Multiple other branches were said to be down across Wible Run Road. As of Saturday evening, no new updates have been given on when the damage will be cleared.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSHALER TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Downed trees and wires led to roads in Shaler Township being blocked off and closed on the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n<p>The Shaler Township Police Department said in a post on Facebook that Wetzel Road remains closed between Little Pine Creek Road and Wible Run Road due to a tree and wires down.<\/p>\n<p>As of 6 p.m., drivers were asked to continue avoiding the area. <\/p>\n<p>The department also said that in the 1000 block of Anderson Road, one lane was blocked by a fallen tree limb. (Photo below)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"Tree down along Shaler Road\" title=\"Tree down along Shaler Road \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/34e585f1-f4d1-4b56-8211-e07c3c96c7ab.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Multiple other branches were said to be down across Wible Run Road. <\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday evening, no new updates have been given on when the damage will be cleared.<\/p>\n<p> to stay connected with breaking news.  to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Downed trees and wires led to roads in Shaler Township being blocked off and closed on the Fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,2586,1591,23193,7285,139,4800,73,75,74,4503,6014,7279,55148,101629,34893,5382,101630,50078,6746],"class_list":["post-235745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county","tag-block","tag-facebook","tag-july","tag-little-pine-creek-road","tag-news","tag-p-m","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-post","tag-road","tag-shaler-township","tag-shaler-township-police-department","tag-shaler-township-road","tag-storm-damage","tag-tree","tag-wetzel-road","tag-wible-run-road","tag-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235745","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=235745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}