{"id":1240,"date":"2006-06-30T09:46:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T17:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/dont_let_the_gasoline-soaked_bedbugs_burst_into_flames_in_the_middle_of_the_night_setting_your_living_quarters_on_fire.html"},"modified":"2006-06-30T09:46:44","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T17:46:44","slug":"dont_let_the_ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/dont_let_the_ga.html","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let The Gasoline-Soaked Bedbugs Burst Into Flames In The Middle Of The Night, Setting Your Living Quarters On Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And for God&#8217;s sake, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/and_dont_let_the_bedbugs_ignite__fdny_regionalnews_stephanie_gaskell.htm\">if you happen to do this, please remember not to smoke in bed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Firefighters have responded to reports of gas odor in several Queens apartments this year &#8212; only to find that the residents had soaked their mattresses with gasoline to kill bedbugs, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>One woman had even wiped gasoline on her arms to keep the bugs from biting her. Another had also wiped her children&#8217;s beds with gas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gasoline is very explosive &#8212; even static electricity from a rug can ignite it,&#8221; said Battalion Chief Robert Turner, who responded to two of the incidents. &#8220;Luckily, all of the apartments were well-ventilated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The incidents happened in Corona, Queens, at separate apartments as recently as this month.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And for God&#8217;s sake, if you happen to do this, please remember not to smoke in bed: Firefighters have responded to reports of gas odor in several Queens apartments this year &#8212; only to find that the residents had soaked their mattresses with gasoline to kill bedbugs, The Post has learned. One woman had even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public_service_announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}