{"id":81705,"date":"2026-01-08T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81705\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:40:09","slug":"viewmont-mall-closed-due-to-gas-leak-building-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81705\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewmont Mall closed due to gas leak, building evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DICKSON CITY, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The Dickson City Police Department said that the Viewmont Mall was closed and evacuated due to a natural gas leak.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, just before 4 p.m, the police department announced on Facebook that the mall was closed due to an emergency.  <\/p>\n<p>Police stated that the original dispatch regarded smoke coming from electrical meters; however, it was then regarded as a gas leak.<\/p>\n<p>The Dickson City Fire Department, as well as other units, responded to the mall. UGI and PPL were called to the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DICKSON CITY, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The Dickson City Police Department said that the Viewmont Mall was closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-81705","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\/81705","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=81705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}