{"id":523290,"date":"2022-09-20T10:38:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T05:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=523290"},"modified":"2022-09-20T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T05:08:37","slug":"fire-blamed-on-scooter-battery-kills-8-year-old-girl-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fire-blamed-on-scooter-battery-kills-8-year-old-girl-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire blamed on scooter battery kills 8-year-old girl in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An electric scooter battery sparked a fire that killed an 8-year-old girl in New York City, authorities said. The death of Stephanie Villa Torres on Saturday was at least the third time in a little over a year that a fatal fire in the city has been linked to a scooter battery.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s fire was reported around 7:30 am at a home in Queens, a police spokesperson said. Stephanie was found unresponsive and was pronounced dead at a hospital. The girl&#8217;s father and 18-year-old brother were treated for burns and smoke inhalation, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An electric scooter battery sparked a fire that killed an 8-year-old girl in New York City, authorities said. The death of Stephanie Villa Torres on Saturday was at least the third time in a little over a year that a fatal fire in the city has been linked to a scooter battery. Saturday&#8217;s fire was reported around 7:30 am at a home in Queens, a police spokesperson said. Stephanie was found unresponsive and was pronounced dead at a hospital. The girl&#8217;s father and 18-year-old brother were treated for burns and smoke inhalation, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}