{"id":1240873,"date":"2023-07-04T14:45:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T19:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1240873"},"modified":"2023-07-06T00:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T05:09:20","slug":"1-dead-4-injured-in-fire-involving-fireworks-explosions-at-venue-in-gilmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1240873","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 4 injured in fire involving fireworks explosions at venue in Gilmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1240997\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/gilmerfireworks-175x152.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/gilmerfireworks-175x152.png 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/gilmerfireworks-200x175.png 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/gilmerfireworks-403x350.png 403w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/gilmerfireworks.png 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>GILMER &#8211; One person is dead and four are injured after several fire departments responded to the scene of a fire at the Firehouse 9 Farm event venue in Gilmer, officials said. Officials said they responded Tuesday morning around 10:33 a.m. to the fire at 4101 Locust Road. Upshur County officials said the incident involved \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fireworks explosions and other volatile incendiaries. Authorities said that 58-year-old Jared Maddox was found dead at the scene. According to our news partner KETK, the fire is being investigated by the Texas State Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office and ATF. Sheriff Webb and Upshur County Emergency Management Coordinator Mark Nichols are also on the scene, a release stated. There is no indication of foul play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GILMER &#8211; One person is dead and four are injured after several fire departments responded to the scene of a fire at the Firehouse 9 Farm event venue in Gilmer, officials said. Officials said they responded Tuesday morning around 10:33 a.m. to the fire at 4101 Locust Road. Upshur County officials said the incident involved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1240873\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1 dead, 4 injured in fire involving fireworks explosions at venue in Gilmer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3908,"featured_media":1240877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/gilmerfireworks-175x152.png","fifu_image_alt":"1 dead, 4 injured in fire involving fireworks explosions at venue in Gilmer","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 23:47:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/gilmerfireworks-175x152.png","fifu_image_alt":"1 dead, 4 injured in fire involving fireworks explosions at venue in Gilmer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240873"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241079,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240873\/revisions\/1241079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1240877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}