{"id":11175,"date":"2012-02-28T15:02:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=11175"},"modified":"2012-02-28T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T23:12:10","slug":"news-brief-suspicious-box-draws-bomb-squad-to-chehalis-propane-storage-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=11175","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Suspicious box draws bomb squad to Chehalis propane storage facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211;\u00a0 A bomb squad was called out to a propane bulk storage yard in Chehalis today when a suspicious box was found against the fence.<\/p>\n<p>Chehalis Police Department Deputy Chief Randy Kaut said someone observed the box on Northwest Prindle Street, at the back of the Cenex facility.<\/p>\n<p>The call came in about 11:20 a.m., according to Kaut.<\/p>\n<p>By about 2:15 p.m. technicians had X-rayed the item and found nothing dangerous, Kaut said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It sounds like the box was empty, I&#8217;m not even sure why it was there,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cenex, with its address on State Street, distributes lubricants, refined fuels and does home delivery of propane, according to manager Sonny Pitts.<\/p>\n<p>There is one giant propane storage tank in the fenced compound off Prindle, Pitts said. The others in the yard are waiting to be filled, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t have been a good thing,&#8221; Pitts said. &#8220;I&#8217;m glad they spotted it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211;\u00a0 A bomb squad was called out to a propane bulk storage yard in Chehalis today when a suspicious box was found against the fence. Chehalis Police Department Deputy Chief Randy Kaut said someone observed the box on Northwest Prindle Street, at the back of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11178,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions\/11178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}