{"id":161297,"date":"2023-03-30T10:26:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T15:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/minnesota-train-carrying-ethanol-derailed-caught-fire-evacuations-ordered"},"modified":"2023-03-30T10:26:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T15:26:44","slug":"minnesota-train-carrying-ethanol-derailed-caught-fire-evacuations-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/minnesota-train-carrying-ethanol-derailed-caught-fire-evacuations-ordered","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota train carrying ethanol derailed, caught fire; evacuations ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/minnesota-train-carrying-ethanol-derailed-caught-fire-evacuations-ordered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BNSF said about 22 rail cars carrying mixed freight, including ethanol and corn syrup, derailed at 1:02 a.m. local time Thursday. Four rail cars caught fire, the BNSF said. There are no other hazardous materials on the train and no injuries were reported, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBNSF personnel are responding to assess the derailment site and will be working closely with local first responders,\u201d company spokesperson Lena Kent said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BNSF said about 22 rail cars carrying mixed freight, including ethanol and corn syrup, derailed at 1:02 a.m. local time Thursday. Four rail cars caught fire, the BNSF said. There are no other hazardous materials on the train and no injuries were reported, the company said. \u201cBNSF personnel are responding to assess the derailment site [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}