{"id":2156,"date":"2025-08-14T15:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:32:22","slug":"man-dies-after-apparent-electrocution-on-blue-line-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=2156","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after apparent electrocution on Blue Line in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A man was killed along the Blue Line when he came in contact with the electrified third rail in Austin. <\/p>\n<p>He was found unresponsive on the tracks about 3:45 a.m. in the 700 block of South Central Avenue, Chicago police said. The location is near the Cicero station, 720 S. Cicero Ave. <\/p>\n<p>The unidentified victim was dead on the scene and detectives are conducting a death investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Blue Line service was temporarily suspended between Pulaski and Forest Park, but normal service resumed at 5:45 a.m., the CTA said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2025\/08\/14\/man-dies-after-apparent-electrocution-on-blue-line-in-austin\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed along the Blue Line when he came in contact with the electrified third rail in Austin. He was found unresponsive on the tracks about 3:45 a.m. in the 700 block of South Central Avenue, Chicago police said. The location is near the Cicero station, 720 S. Cicero Ave. The unidentified victim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}