{"id":749663,"date":"2013-05-03T15:52:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T19:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=228297"},"modified":"2013-05-03T15:52:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T19:52:54","slug":"tower-climber-falls-dies-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/749663","title":{"rendered":"Tower Climber Falls, Dies in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man climbing a power tower in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/tag\/seattle\">Seattle<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/tag\/deaths\">died<\/a>, but not for lack of climbing ability.<\/p>\n<p>According to an Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/sg.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/climber-dies-fiery-fall-seattle-183053401.html\">report<\/a>, the man was climbing a 200-foot power tower when he touched a high-voltage power line and was electrocuted, falling to a platform that was around 150 feet off the ground.  The incident occurred around 12:30 am PDT on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The man remains unidentified and the Seattle fire department has not yet determined why the man was climbing the tower.<\/p>\n<p>The fire department called in a helicopter to help ascertain the situation after it received reports of a fire on the tower.  Witnesses had reported seing a bright flash and sparks.  After finding the body, Seattle&#8217;s power company cut the power to the lines so that the fire department could recover it.  The AP report stated that a &#8220;cap&#8221; and cellphone were found near the body.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=4g1UBqjuNNo:1IHAY9eNtTk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=4g1UBqjuNNo:1IHAY9eNtTk:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=4g1UBqjuNNo:1IHAY9eNtTk:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=4g1UBqjuNNo:1IHAY9eNtTk:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=4g1UBqjuNNo:1IHAY9eNtTk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=4g1UBqjuNNo:1IHAY9eNtTk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=4g1UBqjuNNo:1IHAY9eNtTk:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=4g1UBqjuNNo:1IHAY9eNtTk:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=4g1UBqjuNNo:1IHAY9eNtTk:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/4g1UBqjuNNo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man climbing a power tower in Seattle has died, but not for lack of climbing ability. According to an Associated Press report, the man was climbing a 200-foot power tower when he touched a high-voltage power line and was electrocuted, falling to a platform that was around 150 feet off the ground. The incident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-391l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}