{"id":660008,"date":"2013-05-23T23:57:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T03:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=232062"},"modified":"2013-05-23T23:57:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T03:57:21","slug":"parking-deck-collapses-at-mall-kills-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/660008","title":{"rendered":"Parking Deck Collapses At Mall, Kills 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A parking structure that was closed to the public <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/2013\/05\/23\/parking-deck-collapses-mall-killed\/LpwKi9qJkEZvaNEqV08DKM\/story.html\">collapsed today<\/a>, killing one man and trapping another for hours. <\/p>\n<p>The deck was outside a Macy&#8217;s store in Bethesda, Maryland; the victim was a construction worker. The injured man was reportedly conscious and alert when he was freed.<\/p>\n<p>That area of the mall is said to be under major construction as work has begun to build a 16-screen movie theater in place of the garage. The portion that fell weighs about 50,000 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Mall representatives have so far had no comment, but parking structure accidents are more common than one might think. In 2005, a pregnant Kentucky woman was killed when a concrete slab fell from a two-story garage and onto the city sidewalk, and last year a 100-foot slab of concrete fell in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/middlesex\/index.ssf\/2012\/08\/section_of_parking_deck_collap.html\">New Jersey<\/a> from a two-story parking deck. No one was injured in that incident, but several cars were damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Image: WUSA9<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=CQK_NqEmPMs:fsi01FJu4xo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=CQK_NqEmPMs:fsi01FJu4xo:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=CQK_NqEmPMs:fsi01FJu4xo:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=CQK_NqEmPMs:fsi01FJu4xo:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=CQK_NqEmPMs:fsi01FJu4xo:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=CQK_NqEmPMs:fsi01FJu4xo:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=CQK_NqEmPMs:fsi01FJu4xo:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=CQK_NqEmPMs:fsi01FJu4xo:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=CQK_NqEmPMs:fsi01FJu4xo:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/CQK_NqEmPMs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parking structure that was closed to the public collapsed today, killing one man and trapping another for hours. The deck was outside a Macy&#8217;s store in Bethesda, Maryland; the victim was a construction worker. The injured man was reportedly conscious and alert when he was freed. That area of the mall is said to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}