{"id":656352,"date":"2026-03-15T01:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/656352\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T01:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:43:12","slug":"emergency-alert-issued-in-prince-george-due-to-gas-leak-residents-told-to-evacuate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/656352\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency alert issued in Prince George due to gas leak; residents told to evacuate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An emergency alert has been issued in Prince George, B.C., due to a gas leak that officials say poses a threat to human life.<\/p>\n

The City of Prince George issued the alert at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday, ordering people in a specific area of the city to evacuate immediately.<\/p>\n

According to the city, the evacuation zone includes the area north of Fifth Avenue to Zion Lutheran Church and east of Tabor Boulevard west of Voyageur Drive.<\/p>\n

Officials say people in the affected area should evacuate to Zion Lutheran Christian Church at 180 Tabor Boulevard, where city emergency management staff are on site to assist. <\/p>\n

In a media release, the city said Prince George Fire Rescue crews, RCMP and FortisBC crews are at the scene working to address what is believed to be an underground gas leak.<\/p>\n

Officials say power has also been shut off in the impacted area.<\/p>\n

Nearby businesses, including a Shell gas station and a McDonald\u2019s, are closed in the affected area.<\/p>\n

\"ANearby businesses, including a McDonald\u2019s and a Shell gas station, are closed after a gas leak prompted an emergency alert in the area. (Andrew Kurjata\/CBC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":656353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-656352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116230658907951871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}