{"id":192696,"date":"2015-02-26T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=192696"},"modified":"2015-02-26T04:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:00:32","slug":"wildfire-burns-20-acres-vegetation-wireless-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wildfire-burns-20-acres-vegetation-wireless-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire burns 20 acres of vegetation in Wireless Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wildfire burned about 15 to 20 acres of vegetation in Wireless Ridge on Capital Hill last Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_192697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192697\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a attid=\"192697\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Fire-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Fire-pix-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"A wildfire burned about 15 to 20 acres of vegetation in Wireless Ridge on Capital Hill last Tuesday afternoon. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-192697\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-192697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wildfire burned about 15 to 20 acres of vegetation in Wireless Ridge on Capital Hill last Tuesday afternoon. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No one was reported injured or sought medical assistance related to the fire, according to Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services spokesperson Jocelyn Alvarez yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez said the cause of fire remains unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The department received a call about a wildfire on Capital Hill on Tuesday at 1:30pm, prompting firefighters to respond to the area.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez said a primary survey of the fire showed heavy smoke and active flames in the grassy area between Talafofo and Wireless Ridge.<\/p>\n<p>She said initial assessment indicated no access routes to the fire and no immediate threat to life and property.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters monitored the directional travel of the smoke and fire and once they gained access, fire personnel were able to suppress the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez said the fire was cleared at 11:28pm on Tuesday. Burned were mostly vegetation and natural materials.<\/p>\n<p>Last Feb. 1, a large bush fire swept through some 10 to 15 acres of vegetation on a hill in Kannat Tabla, forcing at least five families to evacuate their homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wildfire burned about 15 to 20 acres of vegetation in Wireless Ridge on Capital&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":192697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[182,1625,2360,2409],"class_list":["post-192696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-capital-hill","tag-jocelyn-alvarez","tag-last-feb","tag-wireless-ridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192696","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}