Gas leak causes power outages and evacuations near Frederick St, Hanover PA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/8/2025 04:45 PM

Near Frederick St, Hanover, PA 17331

Fire crews responded to a gas leak inside a building near Frederick Street in York County, Pennsylvania. The utility company remotely cut power to the area for safety, which caused power outages and traffic light failures on nearby streets. The building was evacuated and the scene was secured while emergency teams managed the situation.

Audio|Source: York County Fire

05:26

Transcript:

00:00

York, Columbia Gas is reporting the building as high levels of ratings.

00:04

You reach out to MedEd, see if they cut the power to this address.

00:10

Yeah, I'll get them a call now.

00:14

Capsid 9b, it's just because my supervisor is going to request.

00:17

Is the building being evacuated?

00:23

Look, it's already empty,

00:26

and if they cannot cut the power remotely, have them respond now.

00:29

Okay. We're going to go to South Free for this operation.

00:35

South Three, thanks.

00:38

294-7.

00:42

392.

00:45

1079V.

00:51

Engine 792, Captain.

00:59

All right.

01:01

Engine, if you can, get down to the corner of Frederick and Centennial, shut down the road there.

01:06

Engine 3, I want you to stop at Parking, Frederick.

01:14

Engine 2, from Engine 3, we'll go to Centennial and Frederick.

01:21

Thanks for eight.

01:25

The ark ends of 793s on scene.

01:29

Thanks for eight.

01:35

Engine 3 to truck, what do you need from us?

01:40

At this point we're just standing by for a plumbly guess.

01:49

FP 701 switching over to South FP3.

01:54

1949.

01:59

Number 21. Chief 1.

02:02

Chief 1.

02:05

My cell 1001 is going to the server as fire, please, but remain on the scene with PD and fill the vehicle has been removed from the street.

02:14

Again, I'm getting ready.

02:20

513.

02:24

Englands 513-9-03.

02:26

All right, police one, from you from Chief One.

02:28

On fire, please, 3rd.

02:34

We've got the one from Chief One.

02:41

The York Defrector Street, Command.

02:44

Yeah, York.

02:47

One in the line with MedEd now.

02:49

They're saying they can do a remote disconnect, but it basically shut down one to two blocks.

02:52

Is that what you're wanting?

02:58

New York City asks the whole block shutdown.

03:04

Your copies, I'll get it down. Your copy, I'll get it done.

03:10

Your cap 79B.

03:12

Just be advised we had a remote disconnect complete.

03:24

And the Zan 3, the truck 79.

03:27

Can we get fire, please? We just lost all traffic lights the whole way back to Reddard Street.

03:36

Copy that.

03:38

Your captain 79B.

03:39

Can you copy that?

03:43

I did copy.

03:44

Med-ed's going to have a check out there within an hour or two.

03:47

Once, if the situation clears before somebody gets out there, just let me know so they turn the power back on.

03:52

And if the power is, it turn back one, just let me know if they contact them again.

03:57

All right, you are a few things.

03:58

Also, advise how to replace the police department, have them respond out.

04:01

And second, our power just came back on.

04:04

You might want to check the Med-Ed again.

04:06

I just think, I'll call them that.

04:08

Give me one second. I can't ask you for.

04:14

179-3 the truck.

04:17

Good.

04:20

You got power going to the post office down high street.

04:26

Looks like everything from near 110 to you just got power back.

04:36

Everything south is dead.

04:42

Copy. You're a check with that now.

04:46

Also had police coming out to provide traffic control.

04:52

...and Adams Company 29 Fire Police.

04:55

Box 7904. Hanovergrove.

04:58

Wellston Family Medicine, Frederick St.

05:00

near Frederick St.

05:02

Gas leak inside.

05:04

Respond. On South 3.

05:06

Timeout 1955.

05:11

Power come back on or did all the power come back on the area?

05:16

I'm being told partial.

05:18

The where I'm at, we have power, but where the engines are located, they do not have power.

05:24

All right, we'll get them to try it down.

05:26

All again.

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A gas leak in downtown Hanover resulted in a power outage affecting roughly 3,200 people on Saturday night, according to officials. Firefighters had been called to a gas leak inside of a building on the 100 block of Frederick Street in downtown Hanover Borough around 7:42 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025, according to York County 911 records. In a release, Hanover Area Fire & Rescue said that emergency crews working at the scene of the natural gas leak had requested the electrical utility to shut down power to the building. Due to the nature of the grid in the downtown area, Met-Ed had to shut down a section of the grid remotely until a technician could respond to the scene and isolate the power shutoff to just the affected building. The Met-Ed power outage tracker reported that around 9:02 p.m. roughly 3,150 customers in Penn Township and Hanover Borough were without power, with an estimated restoration time of around 11 p.m. on Saturday night. By 9:17 p.m., Met-Ed reported that power had been restored to all but roughly 18 customers. On the scene around that time, firefighters were working to ventilate high readings of natural gas that had been

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