{"id":857993,"date":"2026-09-23T17:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/857993\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T17:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:12:11","slug":"breaking-news-washington-gas-leak-causes-evacuations-on-the-square-avoid-area-kcii-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/857993\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Washington Gas Leak Causes Evacuations on the Square; Avoid Area | KCII Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tBREAKING NEWS: Washington Gas Leak Causes Evacuations on the Square; Avoid Area | KCII Radio &#8211; The One to Count On<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t      &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>         <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1075\/2018\/12\/30171909\/breaking-news.jpg\" class=\"alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"breaking-news-2\" wpb-att-id=\"242409\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday at around 9a.m., local authorities responded to a call on the Washington square at the corner of Main Street and Iowa Avenue. The Washington County Communications Center confirmed a gas leak was reported in the area. <\/p>\n<p>Washington County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Washington Police have set up a perimeter for the area of Iowa Avenue from Main Street to Second Street. The Washington Fire Department and Alliant Energy are also on the scene. The public is\u00a0 asked to please avoid the area until further notice. Some local businesses in the immediate area have been evacuated. <\/p>\n<p>KCII will bring you more information as it becomes official.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-410198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260923_095145-300x225.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"\/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-410199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260923_095111-300x225.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/153.0.0.0 Mobile Safari\/537.36\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t6fb89c92272cb967f4b3c15baf95849678c470cf        <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t1        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Washington Gas Leak Causes Evacuations on the Square; Avoid Area | KCII Radio &#8211; The One&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-857993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}