{"id":470,"date":"2014-06-02T22:12:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T02:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2014-06-02T22:12:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T02:12:13","slug":"mobile-trash-incinerator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Trash Incinerator"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_460\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-460\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140602-Garbage-truck-fire-aftermath.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-460\" src=\"\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140602-Garbage-truck-fire-aftermath.png\" alt=\"Charred utility pole, and ash on the pavement\" width=\"200\" height=\"518\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The utility pole was totally charred &#8211; a giant stick of charcoal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First, I have to get this out: it wasn&#8217;t because of us.\u00a0 I swear.<\/p>\n<p>The garbage truck caught fire a few house down from us.\u00a0 Not like a little fire in the back from someone tossing fireplace ashes in their bin \u2014 oh no.\u00a0 It was the recycling truck itself.\u00a0 The cab was engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/ZLYZV\" target=\"_blank\">Megh took some photos of the event while it was happening.<\/a>\u00a0 The driver got out safely, and nobody else was hurt, but the truck was a total loss.<\/p>\n<p>One house has melted siding.\u00a0 The house across the street lost power as the flames burned through the power lines.\u00a0 And I foresee a new utility pole in our near future as the existing pole is charred to a cinder.<\/p>\n<p>Our cans are still sitting on the curb waiting to be picked up.\u00a0 Hopefully it gets taken tomorrow but I&#8217;m sure this event puts the carting company in a tough position with trucks, so who knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, I have to get this out: it wasn&#8217;t because of us.\u00a0 I swear. The garbage truck caught fire a few house down from us.\u00a0 Not like a little fire in the back from someone tossing fireplace ashes in their bin \u2014 oh no.\u00a0 It was the recycling truck itself.\u00a0 The cab was engulfed in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=470\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mobile Trash Incinerator&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-7A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}