{"id":43384,"date":"2019-06-13T08:29:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T12:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=43384"},"modified":"2019-06-13T08:29:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T12:29:55","slug":"follow-up-auto-shop-fire-sends-a-man-to-the-hospital-with-second-degree-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/06\/follow-up-auto-shop-fire-sends-a-man-to-the-hospital-with-second-degree-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up: Auto shop fire sends a man to the hospital with second-degree burns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"505\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/P1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/P1.png 505w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/P1-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A fire at a local car shop sends a man to the hospital with second-degree burns. Lehigh Acres Fire Department said a car caught fire and then spread throughout the garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People who work at Lee Transmission and Auto Repair said they heard a loud explosion from a car that a mechanic was working on. Tthe mechanic was taken to Lee Memorial Hospital with burns on his arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will Velazquez described the chaos when a that fire broke out at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen we looked there were flames,\u201d he said. \u201cYelling to each other, everyone get out! Everyone reacting pretty quickly. Thank God for that.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lehigh Acres Gazette spoke with an owner who released this statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We at Lee Transmission &amp; Auto Repair are deeply shocked and devastated at this afternoon&#8217;s tragedy. As of right now we do not know for sure what caused the fire, but we would like to make it known that we are currently cooperating with the authorities in sorting out the immediate aftermath of the event and will soon be cooperating with our affected clients, who after the preservation of human life, are our biggest priority.\u00a0<\/p><cite>Said employee of Lee Transmission &amp; Auto Repair <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>One person told Lehigh Acres Gazette that one mechanic was injured there and was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Property Manager Cindy Hutton said the mechanic was taking a fuel tank out of the car when it exploded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lehigh Acres Fire Battalion Chief Chad Ketron said this fire was especially dangerous because it\u2019s a car shop and all the fuel inside caused the fire to spread so quickly. They\u2019re still working to find out what caused it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire at a local car shop sends a man to the hospital with second-degree burns. Lehigh Acres Fire Department said a car caught fire and then spread throughout the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}