{"id":212324,"date":"2015-10-14T06:06:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=212324"},"modified":"2015-10-14T06:06:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T20:06:51","slug":"fire-burns-second-floor-of-br-auto-shop-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/fire-burns-second-floor-of-br-auto-shop-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire burns second floor of B&#038;R Auto Shop building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire caused by electrical wiring burned the second floor of a two-story building of B&amp;R Auto Shop in Chalan Laulau yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>No one was reported injured in the blaze, according to Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services spokesman Derek Gersonde.<\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said the second floor of the building had moderate to severe heat and smoke damage.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-212324 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/fire-burns-second-floor-of-br-auto-shop-building\/fire-pix2-3\/'>Fire-pix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-212328'>\n\t\t\t\tA fire engulfs a yellow Camaro on the grassy shoulder of a road at Banzai Cliff in Marpi on Sunday afternoon. No one was injured.  A group of Chinese tourists rented the car from Summit Car Rental. (DEREK GERSONDE)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/fire-burns-second-floor-of-br-auto-shop-building\/fire-pix1-3\/'>Fire-pix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-212329'>\n\t\t\t\tThick smoke bellows from the second floor of the two-story B&amp;R Auto Shop building in Chalan Laulau yesterday morning. Arson investigators determined that electrical wiring caused the blaze. No one was injured. (DEREK GERSONDE)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>DFEMS received a call from the Department of Public Safety\u2019s 911 dispatch about the fire at B&amp;R Auto Shop at 9:33am.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from Susupe and Kagman fire stations and medics from Koblerville Fire Station and Search and Rescue Unit responded.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters placed the blaze under control and fully extinguished at 9:49am, Gersonde said.<\/p>\n<p>He said investigation showed that the fire originated on the second floor at the eastern side of the building.<\/p>\n<p>The fire caused heat and smoke damage at the bedroom of the shop\u2019s owner on the second floor of the building.<\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said DFEMS considers the case closed since the investigation showed that the cause was accidental.<\/p>\n<p>No car was damaged during the fire.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday afternoon, a fire of unknown cause engulfed a yellow Camaro that was rented by a group of Chinese tourists at Banzai Cliff in Marpi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire caused by electrical wiring burned the second floor of a two-story building of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":212328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[2970,4233,4234,6085],"class_list":["post-212324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-chalan-laulau","tag-derek-gersonde","tag-dfems","tag-koblerville-fire-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212324","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=212324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}