{"id":7231,"date":"2023-08-23T06:03:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T10:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/?p=7231"},"modified":"2023-08-23T06:03:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T10:03:16","slug":"father-of-tennessee-titans-star-caleb-farley-dies-in-suspected-gas-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/?p=7231","title":{"rendered":"Father of Tennessee Titans star Caleb Farley dies in suspected gas explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The $2m home, which according to property records belongs to the player, was destroyed in the explosion, while a family friend was also injured and taken to hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, the 24-year-old NFL star shared a picture of his father and posted a video of neighbors toasting his memory, with the caption: &#8220;Daddy, you a legend. I love you 4L (for life).&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of the blast, which officials say originated in a bedroom of the property, is currently under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Kent Greene, director of Iredell County Fire Services and Emergency Management, said he believed that the blast was a gas explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No foul play is suspected, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The $2m home, which according to property records belongs to the player, was destroyed in the explosion, while a family friend was also injured and taken to hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, the 24-year-old NFL star shared a picture of his father and posted a video of neighbors toasting his memory, with the caption: &#8220;Daddy, you a legend. I love you 4L (for life).&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of the blast, which officials say originated in a bedroom of the property, is currently under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Kent Greene, director of Iredell County Fire Services and Emergency Management, said he believed that the blast was a gas explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No foul play is suspected, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NFL star Farley was not home at the time of the explosion, but arrived at the scene on Tuesday after hearing of the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Family friend Christian Rogers, 25, who was seen leaving the collapsed structure in the aftermath of the explosion was taken to a local hospital with a concussion, according to Greene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is awake and alert, but has not yet been discharged, Greene added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There could not be anyone in it left alive &#8211; that was my first thought,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $2m home, which according to property records belongs to the player, was destroyed in the explosion, while a family friend was also injured and taken to hospital. On Tuesday, the 24-year-old NFL star shared a picture of his father and posted a video of neighbors toasting his memory, with the caption: &#8220;Daddy, you a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[2943,2945,2946,2944],"class_list":["post-7231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-caleb-farley","tag-father","tag-gas-explosion","tag-tennessee-titans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7233,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions\/7233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}