{"id":56619,"date":"2018-01-12T06:52:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T06:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=56619"},"modified":"2018-01-12T06:52:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T06:52:52","slug":"7-people-injured-smoking-flaming-iphone-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/politics\/7-people-injured-smoking-flaming-iphone-battery.html","title":{"rendered":"7 People Injured By Smoking, Flaming iPhone Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">7 People Injured By Smoking, Flaming iPhone Battery<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">An Apple store in Zurich had to be cleared on Tuesday after a customer\u2019s iPhone 6s began smoking and eventually burning. The incident forced 50 shoppers and staff to evacuate the store, seven of whom received medical attention, according to CNN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">An employee was taking the battery out of the phone when it began to smoke and caught fire, according to police. Apple workers were lauded by a forensics expert on the case for acting quickly and dousing the battery with sand before any more injuries were sustained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The person working on the phone suffered minor burns. No one was hospitalized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Zurich police spokesman Marco Bisa said forensics were currently investigating the phone\u2019s remains to determine the cause of the battery\u2019s smoky demise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.mensjournal.com\/gear\/7-people-injured-by-smoking-flaming-iphone-battery\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/politics\/7-people-injured-smoking-flaming-iphone-battery.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 People Injured By Smoking, Flaming iPhone Battery An Apple store in Zurich had to be cleared on Tuesday after a customer\u2019s iPhone 6s began smoking and eventually burning. The incident forced 50 shoppers and staff to evacuate the store, seven of whom received medical attention, according to CNN. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[114774],"class_list":["post-56619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-7-people-injured-by-smoking-flaming-iphone-battery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}