{"id":299846,"date":"2026-10-05T00:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299846\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T00:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:42:07","slug":"festival-of-combustion-shows-off-pittsburghs-metal-glass-working-heritage-at-carrie-blast-furnaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299846\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Combustion shows off Pittsburgh\u2019s metal, glass working heritage at Carrie Blast Furnaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An event Saturday in Rankin celebrated Pittsburgh&#8217;s heritage of industry and the arts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Festival of Combustion returned to the Carrie Blast Furnaces for its 10th year. Artisans showed off the history and craft of metal and glass working.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This is really our heritage in action,&#8221; said Emily Balawejder, director of marketing and communications for event organizer Rivers of Steel. &#8220;Pittsburgh is known as the Steel City for a good reason. We&#8217;re in the shadow of one of the original iron mills that created the steel that really built the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There were also flame performances, fireworks and other activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An event Saturday in Rankin celebrated Pittsburgh&#8217;s heritage of industry and the arts. The Festival of Combustion returned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-299846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}