{"id":17097,"date":"2024-12-12T05:06:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T05:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/truck-driver-burned-and-dog-dead-after-propane-tank-explosion-in-cab\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T05:06:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T05:06:56","slug":"truck-driver-burned-and-dog-dead-after-propane-tank-explosion-in-cab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/truck-driver-burned-and-dog-dead-after-propane-tank-explosion-in-cab\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck driver burned and dog dead after propane tank explosion in cab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>A trucker was injured and his dog was killed in a truck fire at a TA in Michigan earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on December 1st at the TA Truck Stop at 200 Baker Road in Scio Township, Michigan at 2:51 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/thesuntimesnews.com\/semi-fire-in-scio-township-leaves-dog-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Sun Times News<\/a>, the truck driver and his dog were sleeping inside of the truck cab when the truck caught fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were several propane tanks in the cab, which exploded during the fire,\u201d said Scio Township Fire Chief Andrew Houde.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified truck driver was able to escape the truck cab but sustained burns in the process. He was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment. Firefighters got the blaze under control in about 15 minutes, but the driver\u2019s dog did not survive the ordeal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, the owner\u2019s dog perished in the fire,\u201d said Houde. \u201cIt appeared that the owner was living in the truck at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2024\/truck-driver-burned-and-dog-dead-after-propane-tank-explosion-in-cab\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trucker was injured and his dog was killed in a truck fire at a TA in Michigan earlier this month.\u00a0 The incident occurred on December 1st at the TA Truck Stop at 200 Baker Road in Scio Township, Michigan at 2:51 a.m.\u00a0 According to The Sun Times News, the truck driver and his dog&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}