{"id":480106,"date":"2026-10-29T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480106\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:30:23","slug":"gas-leak-causes-road-closures-near-basswood-blvd-i-35w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480106\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas leak causes road closures near Basswood Blvd., I-35W"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Fort Worth Fire truck.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A Fort Worth Fire Department truck.\" alt=\"A Fort Worth Fire Department truck.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A Fort Worth Fire Department truck.<\/p>\n<p>            Fort Worth Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>The area around Basswood Boulevard near I-35W in far north Fort Worth has been shut down due to a gas leak, city officials said Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Construction crews hit a gas line in the 2700 block of Basswood Boulevard about 1:30 p.m., officials said. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fortworthpd\/status\/2115533674233896996?a=2TwPalyxSSQ-J4oJtMY&amp;s=20\" rel=\"Follow nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic is shut down<\/a> on Basswood Boulevard from I-35W to Horseman Road, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A nearby clinical facility, Action Behavior Centers, was affected by the leak, and other businesses in the area were evacuated. City Councilman Charlie Lauersdorf said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/District4FW\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media post<\/a> that 20 kids and four adults were experiencing medical issues due to gas exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms such as nausea were reported, but no patients were transported to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Fort Worth Fire Department said the area would continue to be shut down for potentially a few hours, though Atmos Energy was on scene working to make repairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published October 28, 2026 at 4:05 PM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth Fire Department truck. Fort Worth Fire Department The area around Basswood Boulevard near I-35W in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-480106","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\/480106","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=480106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}