{"id":2909,"date":"2012-10-16T10:27:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T10:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2012-10-16T10:27:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T10:27:04","slug":"poisonous-gas-accident-at-kraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2909","title":{"rendered":"Poisonous gas accident at Kraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2910\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kraft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2910\" title=\"-\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kraft-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the accident at Kraft Foods in Bad Fallingbostel, Germany<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 1,400 people have been evacuated from their homes in Germany, authorities said on Tuesday, after a chemical accident at a factory run by US food giant Kraft caused a cloud of poisonous gas.<\/p>\n<p>The accident, at the small town of Bad Fallingbostel, near Hanover in northern Germany, happened on Monday when employees accidentally poured acid into a tank containing sodium hydroxide solution, causing a chemical reaction.<\/p>\n<p>About 700 firefighters were still trying to cool the container on Tuesday amid rising temperatures and fears of a possible explosion. Technical experts were trying to pump out the acid.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities have imposed emergency measures, including closing local schools and nurseries as well as parts of a major motorway running nearby. An exclusion zone of 500 metres has been set up.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the company said that no one had been injured so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has at no time been any danger for the population because we decided, along with the authorities, to evacuate as a precautionary measure,&#8221; Heike Hauerken told rolling news channel N24.<\/p>\n<p>Production was halted as soon as the accident took place, she added. &#8211; Sapa\/AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 1,400 people have been evacuated from their homes in Germany, authorities said on Tuesday, after a chemical accident at a factory run by US food giant Kraft caused a cloud of poisonous gas. The accident, at the small town of Bad Fallingbostel, near Hanover in northern Germany, happened on Monday when employees accidentally poured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2909\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poisonous gas accident at Kraft&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1825,1824,51,1823],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bad-fallingbostel","tag-chemical-accident","tag-germany","tag-kraft-foods"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kraft.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}