{"id":16649,"date":"2009-11-10T15:36:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T23:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/boeing-evacuates-part-of-kent-plant\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T05:00:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T12:00:37","slug":"boeing-evacuates-part-of-kent-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/boeing-evacuates-part-of-kent-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing evacuates part of Kent plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing officials partially evacuated their Kent plant at about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday because of a small explosion and fire in one of the company&#8217;s labs.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion and fire were caused by a battery test, according to a Kent Fire Department media release.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The plant is at the corner of the West Valley Highway and South 212th Street in the Kent Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The accident caused smoke and fumes to travel through portions of the affected building. Employees were evacuated as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>A quick response by Boeing employees and emergency responders from Kent, Renton, and Tukwila kept the incident to the lab where the testing took place.<\/p>\n<p>Once fire officials helped stabilize the problem, Boeing employees cleaned up the battery test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing officials partially evacuated their Kent plant at about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday because of a small explosion and fire in one of the company&#8217;s labs. The explosion and fire were caused by a battery test, according to a Kent Fire Department media release. No one was injured. The plant is at the corner of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16649"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}