{"id":224247,"date":"2024-10-03T09:02:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T13:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=224247"},"modified":"2024-10-03T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T14:05:15","slug":"explosion-of-brugal-molasses-tank-in-san-pedro-two-contracted-workers-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/10\/03\/explosion-of-brugal-molasses-tank-in-san-pedro-two-contracted-workers-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Implosion of Brugal molasses tank in San Pedro; two contracted workers missing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Destileria-Brugal-implosion-Diario-Libre-1024x766.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-224243\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Destileria-Brugal-implosion-Diario-Libre-1024x766.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Destileria-Brugal-implosion-Diario-Libre-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Destileria-Brugal-implosion-Diario-Libre-768x575.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Destileria-Brugal-implosion-Diario-Libre-1536x1149.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Destileria-Brugal-implosion-Diario-Libre.png 1922w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An implosion occurred during the morning of Wednesday, 2 October 2024 when two external contractors were soldering a molasses tank at Casa Brugal in San Pedro de Macor\u00eds. The two men are missing. Emergency services, including ambulances and firefighters, quickly responded to the scene as the situation unfolds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident occurred at the plant located in the C\u00e9sar Iglesias industrial area of the southeastern province of San Pedro de Macoris. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colonel Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo de la Cruz Mart\u00ednez, head of the San Pedro Macor\u00eds Fire Department, told Diario Libre that preliminary reports suggest that the missing individuals may have been inside the tank at the time of the explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/n.com.do\/2024\/10\/02\/explosion-en-un-tanque-de-melaza-de-la-casa-brugal-en-san-pedro-dos-empleados-desaparecidos\/\">N Digital <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/sucesos\/2024\/10\/02\/dos-desaparecidos-tras-implosion-en-destileria-de-brugal\/2868083\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 October 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An implosion occurred during the morning of Wednesday, 2 October 2024 when two external contractors were soldering a molasses tank at Casa Brugal in San Pedro de Macor\u00eds. The two men are missing. Emergency services, including ambulances and firefighters, quickly responded to the scene as the situation unfolds. The incident occurred at the plant located &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/10\/03\/explosion-of-brugal-molasses-tank-in-san-pedro-two-contracted-workers-missing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224354,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224247\/revisions\/224354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}