Fort Worth officials have evacuated a number of businesses and are closing a roadway near I-35 following a gas leak on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Fort Worth Fire Department told WFAA they were called to the 2700 block of Basswood Boulevard in far North Fort Worth after a contractor struck a gas line. Officials say they had gotten reports that people who were nearby were exposed and allegedly showed symptoms of sickness.<\/p>\n
Fort Worth Fire arrived on scene and went door to door to the local businesses to check the air quality inside. Fire officials say they did not detect any traces of gas within the businesses but say there was a smell of gas in the air.<\/p>\n
Atmos Energy says two buildings were evacuated as a result of the gas leak.<\/p>\n
Fort Worth police said that westbound traffic at I-35 on Basswood Boulevard from Basswood to Horseman will be closed for the time being. Police did not give an estimated time of re-opening the roadway.<\/p>\n
Fort Worth City Councilman Charles Lauersdorf said in a social media post that a nearby daycare was “affected and roughly 20 kids and 4 adults were experiencing medical issues due to gas exposure.”<\/p>\n
Fort Worth Fire says a nearby business called Action Behavior Center had 17 kids and 35 adults present during the leak. All were safely evacuated from the building and all children were picked up by their parents.<\/p>\n
Fort Worth Fire says there were a few people treated on scene, but no one was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n
Fort Worth Police and Atmos Energy Crews remain on scene.<\/p>\n
This story is developing and will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth officials have evacuated a number of businesses and are closing a roadway near I-35 following a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-479914","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\/479914","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=479914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}