{"id":1380,"date":"2012-01-20T01:19:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T01:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2012-01-20T01:19:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T01:19:19","slug":"bush-fire-hits-kannat-tabla-mountain-anew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bush-fire-hits-kannat-tabla-mountain-anew\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush fire hits Kannat Tabla mountain anew"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns115887.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of acres of grassland at a mountain in Kannat Tabla were destroyed by a big bush fire that struck Wednesday night and spread until yesterday morning. Smoke could still be seen at a portion of the mountain when this photo was taken yesterday at 10am. (Ferdie de la Torre)\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0A large bush fire struck again Wednesday night at a mountain in Kannat Tabla, sweeping through hundreds of acres of grassland.<\/p>\n<p>Fire chief Tom Manglona told Saipan Tribune yesterday that he did not get any reports of injuries or houses damaged by the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s a regular bush fire,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked why the area keeps going up in flames, Manglona said it could be for various reasons. \u201cIt could be a farm area up there and people did some burning and they just let the fire unattended. Those are the issues that we also look into.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fire of still unknown cause broke out shortly before 8pm. As of 11am yesterday, some portions of the mountain were still smoking.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists and residents noticed the fire and smoke at a portion of the mountain on Wednesday night. After a few minutes, the fire immediately spread. After an hour, the mountain&#8217;s peak was all lit up as two fires were seen engulfing bushes in separate locations.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to make sure that the fire does not spread to the few houses near the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Two big bush fires damaged hundreds of acres of grassland in the area in April and May 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter \u00a0A large bush fire struck again Wednesday night at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}