{"id":1115071,"date":"2026-07-27T23:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1115071\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T23:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:23:17","slug":"environmental-group-investigating-gas-leak-in-downtown-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1115071\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental group investigating gas leak in downtown Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbrc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WBRC<\/a>) &#8211; A gas leak closed roads in Birmingham, according to the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency (EMA). <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Responders said a gas leak appeared to be coming from the storm drain which seemed to be caused by what looked like a petroleum product in the storm drain system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">23rd Street from 1st to 5th Avenue is closed. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Gas leak in storm drain system closes roads in Birmingham\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/URK4OU47VFBFJMK27KZB74QE6I.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" \/>Gas leak in storm drain system closes roads in Birmingham(WBRC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Officials said they don\u2019t know how the petroleum product got there and they are investigating. A citizen reported the odor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">There is no timeline on resolution yet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Birmingham Fire and Rescue Services told WBRC crews on scene that an environmental group is now investigating the gas leak. They were still looking for the source and if it was gasoline or natural gas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">This is a developing story and will be updated as more details become available. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Get news alerts in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wbrc-fox6-news\/id449660326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple App Store<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.raycom.wbrc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play Store<\/a> or subscribe to our email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBRC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) &#8211; A gas leak closed roads in Birmingham, according to the Jefferson County Emergency Management&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1115072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[6304,855,748,393,287997,186811,4884,304054,304053,39287,12,147349,16,15,39286,96321],"class_list":["post-1115071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-alabama","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-fox-6","tag-gas-leak","tag-great-britain","tag-jefferson-county-ema","tag-jefferson-county-emergency-management-agency","tag-myfoxal","tag-news","tag-storm-drain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wbrc","tag-wbrc-6"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116994521615053053","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1115072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}