{"id":8307,"date":"2018-05-02T09:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T13:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=fa9794e6ccf0f16643c9f4bf7c61582e"},"modified":"2018-05-02T09:15:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T13:15:41","slug":"large-fire-burns-after-explosion-at-michigan-plant-2-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/02\/large-fire-burns-after-explosion-at-michigan-plant-2-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Large fire burns after explosion at Michigan plant; 2 hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EATON RAPIDS, Mich. &#8212; Authorities say explosions and a large fire at an auto parts plant in Michigan injured two people and forced the evacuation of workers.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews responded about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday to Meridian Magnesium Products of America in Eaton Rapids.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s Mayor Paul Malewski told the Lansing State Journal that the plant&#8217;s roof has been destroyed. The flames subsided later Wednesday morning. Malewski says no homes have been evacuated and the smoke has dissipated because of strong winds.<\/p>\n<p>Malewski says an initial explosion at the plant about 80 miles (130 kilometres) west of Detroit set off a series of explosions. WILX-TV reports people felt the blast miles away.<\/p>\n<p>The cause is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper says the two injured people have been treated at a hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EATON RAPIDS, Mich. &mdash; Authorities say explosions and a large fire at an auto parts plant in Michigan injured two people and forced the evacuation of workers. Fire crews responded about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday to Meridian Magnesium Products of America in Eaton Rapids. The city&rsquo;s Mayor Paul Malewski told the Lansing State Journal that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8308,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions\/8308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}