{"id":345193,"date":"2018-01-24T06:45:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T05:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-five-found-dead-after-rig-explosion-in-oklahoma\/"},"modified":"2018-01-24T06:45:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T05:45:32","slug":"presstv-five-found-dead-after-rig-explosion-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-five-found-dead-after-rig-explosion-in-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Five found dead after rig explosion in Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Officials on Tuesday recovered the remains of five gas rig workers who had been missing since a fiery explosion in eastern Oklahoma a day earlier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris said once the natural gas drilling rig was stabilized following the blast and subsequent fires, employees from the state medical examiner&#8217;s office went into the wreckage and recovered the bodies in about two hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bodies were located in the area where they were presumed to be working in, what they call the &#8216;dog house,'&#8221; Morris said, referring to a room on the rig floor that generally serves as an office for the drilling crew.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20180124\/62b3304d-6496-442c-ab0d-5e0a3ceca79b.jpg\" width=\"550\"\/><figcaption>Photos of the five people killed in the explosion : (Top left to right) Josh Ray, Matthew Smith, Cody Risk, (Bottom left to right) Parker Waldridge, and Roger Cunningham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He said state and federal investigators will work with the companies involved to determine how Monday&#8217;s blast occurred.<\/p>\n<p>An initial incident report into the explosion&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/01\/24\/549973\/US-Oklahoma-rig-explosion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials on Tuesday recovered the remains of five gas rig workers who had been missing since a fiery explosion in eastern Oklahoma a day earlier. Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris said once the natural gas drilling rig was stabilized following the blast and subsequent fires, employees from the state medical examiner&#8217;s office went into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345193","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}