{"id":215536,"date":"2015-11-30T06:06:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=215536"},"modified":"2015-11-30T06:06:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T20:06:14","slug":"car-catches-fire-in-chalan-piao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/car-catches-fire-in-chalan-piao\/","title":{"rendered":"Car catches fire in Chalan Piao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_215558\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215558\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Vehicle-fire-pix.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Vehicle-fire-pix-300x169.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vehicle owned by security firm G4S sustained extensive damage after catching fire near Sherwood in Chalan Piao on Wednesday night. (DEREK GERSONDE)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nA fire of unknown cause burned down a security agency\u2019s vehicle near Sherwood in Chalan Piao on Wednesday night.<\/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>The vehicle belonged to G4S.<\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said a security guard had parked the car in front of Sherwood and then conducted a routine inspection of the area. When the guard returned to the car, it was already on fire, Gersonde said.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze caused extensive damage to the vehicle\u2019s front part and inside.<\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said they received a call from the Department of Public Safety\u2019s dispatch unit about a possible vehicle fire on Wednesday at 11:25pm.<\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said firefighters from the Susupe fire station and medics from the Koblerville fire station responded to the location.<\/p>\n<p>At 11:38pm, firefighters placed the fire under control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause of the fire is undetermined and still pending further investigation by the Arson Investigation Unit. Updates will be released when they are available,\u201d Gersonde said.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, a fire of unknown cause engulfed a yellow Camaro that was rented by a group of Chinese tourists at Banzai Cliff in Marpi. No one was injured. DFEMS has yet to release information as to what caused that fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire of unknown cause burned down a security agency\u2019s vehicle near Sherwood in Chalan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":215558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[6795,162,2147,4234],"class_list":["post-215536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-arson-investigation-unit","tag-car","tag-chalan-piao","tag-dfems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215536","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=215536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}