{"id":119089,"date":"2021-08-25T07:19:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T07:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=119089"},"modified":"2021-08-25T08:57:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T08:57:37","slug":"afl-caller-suffers-face-burns-in-gas-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=119089","title":{"rendered":"AFL caller suffers face burns in gas explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Channel 7 footy commentator and 1986 Coleman medallist Brian Taylor has minor injuries following a gas explosion at a Gippsland property.<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old has minor burns to his face and has been airlifted to Alfred Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE AFL NEWS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/grand-final-venue-perth-or-mcg-gillon-mclachlan-update\/f2288661-bc6c-4cf1-9fbc-250985d44056\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"AFL boss Gillon McLachlan reveals Perth will host AFL grand final if MCG is unavailable\">AFL boss Gillon McLachlan reveals Perth will host AFL grand final if MCG is unavailable<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taylor was doing some maintenance at his farm on a hot-water system when emergency services were called to the scene in Walhalla just after midday today.<\/p>\n<p>The local fire brigade, Erica and District Fire Brigade, posted a photo of the scene on social media.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"6b124c9d-1cb4-4e85-a0da-ddda14ee32b1\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/6b124c9d-1cb4-4e85-a0da-ddda14ee32b1\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Assisting Ambulance Victoria in Walhalla this afternoon with a minor gas explosion from a gas fridge causing injuries to a male occupant of the household, who was airlifted to hospital for treatment,&quot; the caption reads.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We wish them speedy recovery.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Taylor played 140 games with <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/richmond-tigers\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Richmond\">Richmond<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/collingwood-magpies\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Collingwood\">Collingwood<\/a> between 1980 and 1990.<\/p>\n<p>He topped Richmond&#x27;s goal-kicking on two occasions and Collingwood&#x27;s five times.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"5837cd36-173a-4a12-94b6-313c476c1db5\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/5837cd36-173a-4a12-94b6-313c476c1db5\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Channel 7 footy commentator and 1986 Coleman medallist Brian Taylor has minor injuries following a gas explosion at a Gippsland property. The 59-year-old has minor <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=119089\" title=\"AFL caller suffers face burns in gas explosion\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119091,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119089\/revisions\/119091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}