{"id":302638,"date":"2018-09-14T06:52:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T06:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302638"},"modified":"2018-09-14T06:52:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T06:52:36","slug":"fire-explosions-erupted-in-three-us-towns-1-dead-hundreds-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/fire-explosions-erupted-in-three-us-towns-1-dead-hundreds-evacuated\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire, explosions erupted in three US towns, 1 dead, hundreds evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/fire-explosions-erupted-in-three-us-towns-1-dead-hundreds-evacuated\/boston-explosion\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302639\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302639 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/boston-explosion-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/boston-explosion-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/boston-explosion-768x378.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/boston-explosion-324x160.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/boston-explosion-696x342.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/boston-explosion-854x420.jpg 854w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/boston-explosion.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a>At least one person died and 12 others got injured after dozens of explosions and fire triggered by a natural gas pipeline rupture near Boston leading to mass evacuations from US towns north of Boston, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Massachusetts State Police said that they had responded to nearly 70 reports of fires, explosions and the smell of gas in a widespread area encompassing the east coast towns of Lawrence, Andover and North Andover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police said, \u201cNumerous evacuations of neighbourhoods where there are gas odours are underway.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Andover Fire Chief Michael Mansfield reportedly said that fire investigators suspected &#8220;over-pressurization of a gas main&#8221; belonging to Columbia Gas of Massachusetts led to the series of explosions and fires.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The blasts left dozens of homes and other buildings demolished as firefighters from some 50 departments raced for hours from one blaze to another and utility crews rushed to shut off gas and power in the area to prevent further ignitions and blasts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police tweeted, \u201cGas lines are currently being depressurised, and it will take some time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker said in a statement that he was \u201cactively monitoring the situation,\u201d urging \u201cresidents to heed instructions from local officials.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one person died and 12 others got injured after dozens of explosions and fire triggered by a natural gas pipeline rupture near Boston leading to mass evacuations from US towns north of Boston, police said. Massachusetts State Police said that they had responded to nearly 70 reports of fires, explosions and the smell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[5001,5000,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302641,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302638\/revisions\/302641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}