{"id":335524,"date":"2026-06-14T01:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335524\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T01:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:31:10","slug":"shepherd-area-residents-evacuated-after-friday-gas-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335524\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepherd-area residents evacuated after Friday gas leak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">SHEPHERD, Texas &#8211; Residents in the Shepherd area had to leave their homes Friday night after a gas leak nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   San Jacinto County: Shepherd-area gas leak <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02C7aS1yMJ1cujLxBN5hnHPND5Zgb48dz1f8TtqonBPAtStpauKoC4ofCJ7bLgznFtl&amp;id=100071113062735\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The county office of emergency management<\/a> shared that a pipeline released gas just outside of Shepherd, possibly from &#8220;third-party excavation activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials say the leak has since been isolated and crews are removing the product from the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A FOX 26 crew was present near FM 1127 Saturday afternoon as it remained closed off. Officials say it could remain closed through the weekend.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A 24-hour alternate route is said to be available.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2956_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  For displaced residents <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Residents who had to stay out of their homes overnight are asked to email their receipt for reimbursement at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02C7aS1yMJ1cujLxBN5hnHPND5Zgb48dz1f8TtqonBPAtStpauKoC4ofCJ7bLgznFtl&amp;id=100071113062735\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">RESnotices@oneok.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: San Jacinto County office of Emergency Management<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/san-jacinto-county\/shepherd\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shepherd<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHEPHERD, Texas &#8211; Residents in the Shepherd area had to leave their homes Friday night after a gas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,72887,115027,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-335524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-san-jacinto-county","tag-shepherd","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}