{"id":479880,"date":"2026-10-29T01:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479880\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T01:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:16:23","slug":"fort-worth-gas-leak-closes-roads-near-i-35w-prompts-evacuations-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479880\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth gas leak closes roads near I-35W, prompts evacuations \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Fort Worth, police are asking drivers to avoid the area near I-35 and Basswood Blvd due to a gas leak. <\/p>\n<p>Westbound traffic on I-35 on Basswood Boulevard from Basswood to Horseman is closed, according to the Fort Worth Police Department. <\/p>\n<p>Atmos said construction crews unrelated to the company damaged a natural gas pipeline in the 2700 block of Basswood Blvd. in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>Two buildings were evacuated as a precaution, according to Atmos.<\/p>\n<p>A post on Facebook from Councilman Charlie Lauersdorf said a nearby daycare was affected and roughly 20 kids and 4 adults were experiencing medical issues. NBC 5 has not independently verified this claim.<\/p>\n<p>Another statement from Councilman Carlos Flores also referenced a nearby clinical facility, Action Behavior Centers, that the leak affected.<\/p>\n<p>NBC 5 has reached out to the Fort Worth Fire Department to ask about any injuries or medical issues due to exposure but has not yet heard back.<\/p>\n<p>Check back and refresh this page for the latest updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Fort Worth, police are asking drivers to avoid the area near I-35 and Basswood Blvd due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-479880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479880","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=479880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}