{"id":23081,"date":"2013-01-24T07:32:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T06:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/chicago-warehouse-covered-ice-fire-214929483.html"},"modified":"2013-01-24T07:32:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T06:32:22","slug":"chicago-warehouse-covered-in-ice-after-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/chicago-warehouse-covered-in-ice-after-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Warehouse Covered In Ice After Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">About 200 firefighters battled to put out a massive fire at an empty warehouse in Chicago as glacial temperatures turned water to ice.<\/p>\n<p>Fire department officials said the blaze on Tuesday evening was among the biggest in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>About a third of the city\u2019s firefighters were at the scene at one point or another.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the blaze in the vacant building is still being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>The efforts to tame the fire, which threatened an adjacent building, were made difficult by temperatures that were well below zero, encasing fire trucks and the building into ice.<\/p>\n<p>Water froze on the firefighters&#8217; uniforms and gloves. After several hours, the fire was put out, with ice sheets covering the remains of the building.<\/p>\n<p>The American Midwest has been experiencing a cold snap since the weekend, with frigid Arctic air coming from Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>About 200 firefighters battled to put out a massive fire at an empty warehouse in Chicago as glacial temperatures turned water to ice.<\/p>\n<p>Fire department officials said the blaze on Tuesday evening was among the biggest in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>About a third of the city&rsquo;s firefighters were at the scene at one point or another.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the blaze in the vacant building is still being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>The efforts to tame the fire, which threatened an adjacent building, were made difficult by temperatures that were well below zero, encasing fire trucks and the building into ice.<\/p>\n<p>Water froze on the firefighters&#8217; uniforms and gloves. After several hours, the fire was put out, with ice sheets covering the remains of the building.<\/p>\n<p>The American Midwest has been experiencing a cold snap since the weekend, with frigid Arctic air coming from Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}