{"id":17388,"date":"2018-05-11T18:50:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T23:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=17388"},"modified":"2018-05-11T18:50:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T23:50:21","slug":"historical-note-suitable-for-use-in-schools-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=17388","title":{"rendered":"Historical note, suitable for use in schools."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>42 years ago today, a truck fell from Loop 610 West in Houston and landed on the Southwest Freeway below the overpass.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was pretty much obliterated.<\/p>\n<p>It was carrying 7,000 gallons of anhydrous ammonia, all of which was released when the truck crashed.<\/p>\n<p>Six people, including the truck driver, were either killed outright or died shortly afterwards. A seventh person died in 1979 of complications from their injuries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/houston\/article\/In-1976-an-ammonia-truck-disaster-claimed-the-12906732.php#photo-1207996\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HouChron<\/strong> retrospective<\/a>. My family was living in suburban Houston at the time: we were well out of the danger zone, but I remember it being a huge deal for several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>42 years ago today, a truck fell from Loop 610 West in Houston and landed on the Southwest Freeway below the overpass. The truck was pretty much obliterated. It was carrying 7,000 gallons of anhydrous ammonia, all of which was released when the truck crashed. Six people, including the truck driver, were either killed outright [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17390,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17388\/revisions\/17390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}