{"id":475604,"date":"2026-10-24T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475604\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:24:09","slug":"texas-renaissance-festival-evacuated-due-to-nearby-propane-leak-grimes-county-sheriffs-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475604\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Renaissance Festival evacuated due to nearby propane leak, Grimes County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KTRK logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792862649_979_origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, October 24, 2026 4:52PM<\/p>\n<p>Follow ABC13 on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">GRIMES COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; The Texas Renaissance Festival was evacuated on Saturday morning due to a nearby propane tank leak, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Grimes County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said it received a report about the leak at about 8:15 a.m. Officials said the leak came from an underground propane tank near the festival grounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities said that College Station hazmat crews responded to the scene to conduct a burn-off of the propane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials said that there is no danger to the public, adding that the people were evacuated from the festival as a precaution. Authorities said the evacuation lasted a few minutes and that normal operations have resumed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">ABC13 reached out to the Texas Renaissance Festival for more information on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock Saturday, October 24, 2026 4:52PM Follow ABC13 on Google&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[161065,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-475604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-161065","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475604","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=475604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}