{"id":71563,"date":"2025-12-28T03:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71563\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T03:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:04:07","slug":"sinkhole-opens-up-and-swallows-car-along-5th-street-in-blakely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71563\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole opens up and swallows car along 5th street in Blakely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway after an eight to ten-foot sinkhole opened up Friday night in Blakely. Residents have been allowed to stay as the hole is being filled.<\/p>\n<p>BLAKELY, Pa. \u2014 An investigation is underway into a sinkhole that opened up Friday night in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hole opened up just before midnight along 5th Street in the Blakely borough.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were on scene pulling out a car that fell into the hole.<\/p>\n<p>While there is a nearby mine site, officials have not said whether the hole is connected to it.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the hole stretched across eight to ten feet of the road.<\/p>\n<p>Residents along 5th Street are allowed to stay.<\/p>\n<p>The hole is now being filled, and a water line is being repaired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after an eight to ten-foot sinkhole opened up Friday night in Blakely. Residents have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-71563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71563","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=71563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}