{"id":82715,"date":"2018-09-15T22:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T05:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/8000-people-evacuated-and-teenager-dies-amid-70-blasts-and-fires-in-boston"},"modified":"2018-09-15T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T05:22:23","slug":"8000-people-evacuated-and-teenager-dies-amid-70-blasts-and-fires-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/8000-people-evacuated-and-teenager-dies-amid-70-blasts-and-fires-in-boston","title":{"rendered":"8,000 people evacuated and teenager dies amid 70 blasts and fires in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/8000-people-evacuated-and-teenager-dies-amid-70-blasts-and-fires-in-boston.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sheer scale of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/gas-explosion-massachusetts-latest-boston-lawrence-fire-andover-house-evacuate-ma-a8536921.html\">series of gas explosions<\/a> which ripped through three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/Boston\">Boston<\/a> neighbourhoods and killed a teenager became apparent on Friday as it emerged 8,000 people had been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>Some 70 separate fires, blasts and gas odours were reported during the incident, in which 18-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/gas-explosion-massachusetts-latest-boston-lawrence-fire-andover-house-evacuate-ma-a8536921.html\">Leonel Rondon<\/a> was killed by a falling chimney.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/boston-explosions-cause-fires-blasts-evacuations-death-andover-lawrence-a8537456.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/boston-exp...37456.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sheer scale of a series of gas explosions which ripped through three Boston neighbourhoods and killed a teenager became apparent on Friday as it emerged 8,000 people had been evacuated. Some 70 separate fires, blasts and gas odours were reported during the incident, in which 18-year-old Leonel Rondon was killed by a falling chimney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82715","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=82715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}