{"id":51176,"date":"2025-12-14T03:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=51176"},"modified":"2025-12-14T03:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:28:58","slug":"1-dead-in-u-haul-truck-explosion-in-idaho-parking-lot-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=51176","title":{"rendered":"1 dead in U-Haul truck explosion in Idaho parking lot: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">One person is dead after a U-Haul truck appears to have accidentally exploded in a parking lot in Idaho early Saturday, according to officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The explosion caused damage within the blast radius including to a Courtyard Marriott and Old Navy, according to the Lewiston Fire Department&nbsp;and City of Lewiston Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Initial findings indicate the vehicle was transporting stored materials, including flammable items such as gasoline and propane tanks, according to officials.<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/record-flooding-pacific-northwest-storms-atmospheric-river\/story?id=128273281\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;At this time, there is no indication the incident is criminal in nature,&#8221; Lewiston Fire Marshal Julian Sorrell said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There was no fire after the explosion, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The investigation into the incident remains ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/1-dead-haul-truck-explosion-idaho-parking-lot\/story?id=128378682\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person is dead after a U-Haul truck appears to have accidentally exploded in a parking lot in Idaho early Saturday, according to officials. The explosion caused damage within the blast radius including to a Courtyard Marriott and Old Navy, according to the Lewiston Fire Department&nbsp;and City of Lewiston Police Department. Initial findings indicate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":51177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[2210,35631,2532],"class_list":["post-51176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-dead","tag-haul","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51176","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51178,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51176\/revisions\/51178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}