{"id":488910,"date":"2025-10-10T17:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488910\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T17:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:47:14","slug":"live-updates-some-dead-after-massive-blast-at-tennessee-military-explosives-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488910\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Some dead after massive blast at Tennessee military explosives facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hickman mayor says facility has no safety issues apart from one small explosion in 2014published at 18:28 BST<\/p>\n<p>18:28 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mayor of Hickman County says there are still a lot of questions to be answered after the explosion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to CNN a few minutes ago, Mayor Jim Bates says the cause is still unclear, but the impacts on the community will be wide-reaching. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty devastating to see this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also says he&#8217;s heading to the site now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Apart from one &#8220;small ammunition explosion&#8221; in 2014, the facility has had no safety issues, he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As for concerns about hazardous materials in the air or the risk of secondary explosions, Bates says he&#8217;s not aware of any.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of question,&#8221; he says, stressing that they will be answered in an investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hickman mayor says facility has no safety issues apart from one small explosion in 2014published at 18:28 BST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-488910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115351129797238424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}