{"id":1285,"date":"2016-07-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/2016\/07\/30\/hot-air-balloon-crash-16-feared-dead-near-austin\/"},"modified":"2016-07-30T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T04:00:00","slug":"hot-air-balloon-crash-16-feared-dead-near-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/hot-air-balloon-crash-16-feared-dead-near-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Air Balloon crash, 16 feared dead near Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1990ac324e26b7e716caf3c87ed6c195.jpg\" alt=\"James Vertuno\/AP Photo\" class=\"caption\" title=\"Police cars block access.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1990ac324e26b7e716caf3c87ed6c195.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1990ac324e26b7e716caf3c87ed6c195-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Up to 16 people are feared dead after a large hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in central Texas on Saturday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accident occurred shortly after 7:40 am (1240 GMT), when the balloon crashed into a field near Lockhart, around 30 miles (50 miles) south of Austin, Lynn Lunsford of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00abIt does not appear at this time that there were any survivors of the crash,\u00bb the Caldwell County sheriff&#8217;s office said, which received an emergency call about a possible accident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00abWhen the Emergency Responders and the Sheriff&#8217;s Office arrived on the scene, it was apparent that the reported fire was the basket portion of a hot air balloon,\u00bb it added in a statement posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Texas Governor Greg Abbott offered condolences to those affected by the crash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00abOur thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families, as well as the Lockhart community,\u00bb he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A photo posted on social media apparently depicting the accident showed a balloon in the air with huge flames spurting underneath.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">FAA investigators are on their way to the site, Lunsford said, with the National Transportation Safety Board taking charge of the probe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 16 people are feared dead after a large hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in central Texas on Saturday, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Hot Air Balloon crash, 16 feared dead near Austin - Opini\u00f3n P\u00fablica","description":"Up to 16 people are feared dead after a large hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in central Texas on Saturday, officials said. The accident occurred shortl"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estados-unidos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}