{"id":5923,"date":"2014-09-08T16:24:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T23:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5923"},"modified":"2014-09-08T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T23:28:29","slug":"colossus-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/08\/colossus-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Colossus Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"

from NBC SoCal<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Fire Burns Six Flags Magic Mountain’s Colossus Coaster<\/h1>\n

By Jonathan Lloyd<\/a> and Kevin LaBeach<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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\"\" Tony Slauson<\/span> <\/span> @tslauson7<\/b><\/span> <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A portion of Six Flags Magic Mountain’s wooden Colossus coaster collapsed Monday when the decades-old ride caught on fire.<\/p>\n

The wooden Colossus opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, in June 1978. It closed in mid-August, celebrating with free rides<\/a> for a final few hundred riders before crews began adding steel segments to create a “hybrid” coaster set to open in 2015.<\/p>\n

Colossus was the world’s fastest and tallest wooden roller coaster when it opened, and the first to feature two drops that are more than 100 feet steep.<\/p>\n

[ click to read complete article at NBC SoCal<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from NBC SoCal Fire Burns Six Flags Magic Mountain’s Colossus Coaster By Jonathan Lloyd and Kevin LaBeach Tony Slauson @tslauson7 A portion of Six Flags Magic Mountain’s wooden Colossus coaster collapsed Monday when the decades-old ride caught on fire. The wooden Colossus opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, in June 1978. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}