{"id":20903,"date":"2010-07-24T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc-deepwater_horizon_safety_alarm_shut_off_before_fire\/"},"modified":"2010-07-24T02:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T02:17:00","slug":"bbc-deepwater_horizon_safety_alarm_shut_off_before_fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20903","title":{"rendered":"BBC&#8211;Deepwater Horizon safety alarm &#39;shut off&#39; before fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An alarm aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that could have alerted workers to fire and explosive gas had been silenced before the 20 April explosion, a senior rig technician has said.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Williams told a hearing that managers wanted warning sirens and lights silenced because they did want workers disturbed by false alarms.<\/p>\n<p>He said the alarm had been partially shut off months before the blast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-10747070\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alarm aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that could have alerted workers to fire and explosive gas had been silenced before the 20 April explosion, a senior rig technician has said. Mike Williams told a hearing that managers wanted<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20903\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,410,589,149,140,597],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-the-2010-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}