{"id":479667,"date":"2026-10-28T20:46:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479667\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T20:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:46:48","slug":"fort-worth-gas-leak-triggers-evacuations-after-crew-hits-line-near-i-35w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479667\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth gas leak triggers evacuations after crew hits line near I-35W"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/110226-sky-4-mon-1450-kdfweme003_14_50_09_mpg_00.21.16.30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-31bc2d2e=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Construction crews hit a gas line in Fort Worth on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">It happened in the 2700 block of Basswood Boulevard near Interstate 35W.<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">The Fort Worth Fire Department confirmed a construction crew hit a gas line, which caused a leak.<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Images from SKY 4 showed first responders in the area where crews were digging. Gas and mud appeared to be spewing out of the hole.<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Fort Worth Councilman Charlie Lauersdorf said several children and staff at a nearby daycare were exposed to the gas, but the fire department said none of them were transported to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Several nearby businesses were evacuated as a precaution and traffic in the area is being affected.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Crews are still working to cap the line. It\u2019s not yet clear how long that will take or when the area will reopen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the Fort Worth Fire Department and Fort Worth Councilman Charlie Lauersdorf.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Construction crews hit a gas line in Fort Worth on Wednesday afternoon. What&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-479667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479667","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=479667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}