{"id":1271,"date":"2026-05-21T08:31:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:31:49","slug":"hot-tunnels-under-the-city-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/21\/hot-tunnels-under-the-city-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Tunnels Under the City Street?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #000000;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/maintenance-hole-death-new-york\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">lady falls into an open manhole<\/span><\/a> after exiting her vehicle. Falls 10 feet and dies. But not from the fall. Medical examiner \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/manhattan\/cause-of-death-woman-fell-down-manhole-midtown-manhattan\/6504242\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">determined she died as a result of scald burns with inhalational thermal injury, along with blunt force injury to her chest<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #000000; min-height: 12.0px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #000000;\">Scald burns with inhalational thermal injury. What. The Fuck. Why is it so hot down there? Putting on my best Karen outfit, I researched. Because &#8211; I wanted to know. Just in case I\u2019m not cognizant of my surroundings when stepping out of my vehicle while parked on a city street, where does this scalding danger come from? What do I need to be aware of?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #000000; min-height: 12.0px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #000000;\">I <a href=\"https:\/\/flowsolutions.com\/blog\/high-temperature-submersible-pumps-in-steam-tunnels\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">learned<\/span><\/a> these are utility tunnels that house steam pipes and other utility components. These temperatures can easily exceed 180 degrees F. Crazy, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lady falls into an open manhole after exiting her vehicle. Falls 10 feet and dies. But not from the fall. Medical examiner \u201cdetermined she died as a result of scald burns with inhalational thermal injury, along with blunt force injury to her chest.\u201d \u00a0 Scald burns with inhalational thermal injury. What. The Fuck. Why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}