{"id":302951,"date":"2014-06-03T02:39:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T07:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=302951"},"modified":"2014-06-04T02:35:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T07:35:52","slug":"cause-of-east-texas-fertilizer-lot-fire-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=302951","title":{"rendered":"Cause of East Texas Fertilizer Lot Fire Unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/06\/Athens-Fertilizer-fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/06\/Athens-Fertilizer-fire-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Athens Fertilizer fire\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-302952\" \/><\/a>ATHENS (AP) \u2014 Investigators have been unable to determine the cause of a fertilizer fire at an East Texas farm supply lot. Officials said Monday there is no evidence or indication of a criminal or intentional act that caused last week&#8217;s fire. The fire broke out at the East Texas Ag Supply lot in Athens about 6:00 last   Thursday evening and flames reached about 60 feet. No injuries were reported. Athens Fire Chief John McQueary says &#8220;the only causes that could not be eliminated are related to an electrical failure.&#8221; Fertilizer fires have been of concern in Texas since an April 2013 fertilizer plant explosion killed 15, injured about 200 others and devastated the Central Texas town of West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS (AP) \u2014 Investigators have been unable to determine the cause of a fertilizer fire at an East Texas farm supply lot. Officials said Monday there is no evidence or indication of a criminal or intentional act that caused last week&#8217;s fire. The fire broke out at the East Texas Ag Supply lot in Athens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=302951\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cause of East Texas Fertilizer Lot Fire Unknown<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 06:09:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302951","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302953,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302951\/revisions\/302953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}