{"id":288687,"date":"2026-09-18T05:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288687\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T05:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:14:31","slug":"city-of-erie-remains-under-state-of-emergency-following-storms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288687\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Erie remains under state of emergency following storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WJET Erie;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WJET Erie\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789708471_526_aol_wjet_erie_articles_147.png\"\/><\/a>Updated Fri, September 4, 2026 at 9:12 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/b47c78bc-3dd1-46f7-833d-c838b260737b.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The City of Erie remains under a state of emergency Friday night following Wednesday\u2019s powerful storms.<\/p>\n<p>Strong winds and heavy rain brought down trees and power lines and left a path of destruction all throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"elmt:article-inline-link;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/cleanup-underway-in-erie-after-major-storm-damage\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tCleanup underway in Erie after major storm damage\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the police, we&#8217;ve had overtime, and many of our units called back so that we can put patrols out on motorcycles and help with traffic control,\u201d said Erie City Mayor Daria Devlin. &#8220;With Public Works, we&#8217;ve had crews out around the clock working on clearing those streets, making sure that we can get debris cleared and get traffic through, that&#8217;s been our number one priority. We&#8217;re now shifting a bit from that to cleanup, so now we&#8217;re going around, working on our boulevards, working on our public spaces, to make sure that we\u2019re getting those opened as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Devlin said the city is also working with Penelec to restore power as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"elmt:article-inline-link;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Fri, September 4, 2026 at 9:12 PM UTC The City of Erie remains under a state of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-288687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288687","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=288687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}