{"id":20993,"date":"2026-02-27T17:40:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/20993\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:40:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:40:52","slug":"evacuation-underway-after-gas-leak-at-walmart-in-new-bern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/20993\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuation underway after gas leak at Walmart in New Bern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; First responders in New Bern are asking the public to avoid Walmart as a gas leak broke out this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The supercenter is located at 3105 MLK Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New Bern Fire-Rescue and Police are at the scene as shoppers evacuate from the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say a contractor struck a gas line near the Garden Center entrance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Piedmont Natural Gas is heading there to fix the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; First responders in New Bern are asking the public to avoid Walmart as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,804,13867,117,107,118,13228,105],"class_list":["post-20993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-gas","tag-gas-leak","tag-nc","tag-new-bern","tag-north-carolina","tag-walmart","tag-witn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}