{"id":26303,"date":"2024-04-21T04:46:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T09:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26303"},"modified":"2024-04-21T04:46:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T09:46:44","slug":"house-fire-explosion-injures-1-in-maryland-fire-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26303","title":{"rendered":"House fire, explosion injures 1 in Maryland, fire department says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A man was transported to the hospital with injuries after a fire and an explosion at a house in the suburbs east of Baltimore, Maryland, a fire official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Fire crews responded to the two-alarm fire late Saturday, the Baltimore County Fire Department said in a statement on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The house on Ridgemoor Road in Essex, Maryland, appeared in photos shared by the department to have been completely destroyed by the blast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Crews were expected to be on the scene for &#8220;an extended period of time,&#8221; the department said. Hazmat and fire investigators had been on their way to the scene, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The injured man was transported to a local hospital with non life-threatening injuries, Lt. Twana Allen said in an email to ABC News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/house-fire-explosion-injures-1-maryland-fire-department\/story?id=109471597\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was transported to the hospital with injuries after a fire and an explosion at a house in the suburbs east of Baltimore, Maryland, a fire official said. Fire crews responded to the two-alarm fire late Saturday, the Baltimore County Fire Department said in a statement on social media. The house on Ridgemoor Road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[2536,3212,4092,2724],"class_list":["post-26303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-explosion","tag-fire-department","tag-house-fire","tag-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26305,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26303\/revisions\/26305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}