{"id":73000,"date":"2026-05-03T11:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/lightning-may-have-sparked-fire-destroying-top-us-marine-science-lab-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:56:14","slug":"lightning-may-have-sparked-fire-destroying-top-us-marine-science-lab-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/lightning-may-have-sparked-fire-destroying-top-us-marine-science-lab-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning may have sparked fire destroying top US marine science lab, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 200 firefighters responded to devastating blaze at University of South Florida\u2019s lab on Saturday<\/p>\n<p>Officials are investigating whether a huge fire that destroyed a top marine science laboratory at the University of South <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a> may have been caused by a lightning strike.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a massive response from local fire crews the Marine Science Laboratory building was completely destroyed after the blaze began on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/03\/university-of-south-florida-marine-lab-fire-lightning\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 200 firefighters responded to devastating blaze at University of South Florida\u2019s lab on Saturday Officials are investigating whether a huge fire that destroyed a top marine science laboratory at the University of South Florida may have been caused by a lightning strike. Despite a massive response from local fire crews the Marine Science Laboratory &#8230; <a title=\"Lightning may have sparked fire destroying top US marine science lab, officials say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/lightning-may-have-sparked-fire-destroying-top-us-marine-science-lab-officials-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lightning may have sparked fire destroying top US marine science lab, officials say\">Read more<\/a><\/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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}