{"id":217312,"date":"2015-12-24T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=217312"},"modified":"2015-12-24T06:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T20:00:21","slug":"fire-engulfs-abandoned-house-in-koblerville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/fire-engulfs-abandoned-house-in-koblerville\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire engulfs abandoned house in Koblerville"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_217313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217313\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fire-pix.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fire-pix-169x300.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-217313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters from the Susupe Fire Station respond to a fire that engulfed an abandoned semi-concrete one-story house near Saipan Southern High School Monday afternoon. (Derek Gersonde)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fire of unknown cause engulfed an abandoned semi-concrete one-story house near Saipan Southern High School along Tinaktak Drive in Koblerville on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>No one was reported injured in the blaze, according to Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services spokesman Derek Gersonde yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>DFEMS received a call from an anonymous caller about a structure fire near Saipan Southern High School on Monday at 3:08pm.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from the Susupe Fire Station and medics from Koblerville Fire Station immediately responded.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters placed the fire under control and fully extinguished at 3:40pm.<\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said Arson Investigation Unit investigators determined that the fire started in the northeast portion of the house.<\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said most of what fueled the fire were the wooden beams and truss holding up the tin roofing.<\/p>\n<p>The case is under further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Last Dec. 4, fire broke out at a barbecue stand in San Vicente and investigators determined that the cause was electrical. The barbecue stand sustained minor damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire of unknown cause engulfed an abandoned semi-concrete one-story house near Saipan Southern High School&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":217313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6795,4234,6085,7167],"class_list":["post-217312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-arson-investigation-unit","tag-dfems","tag-koblerville-fire-station","tag-susupe-fire-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217312","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=217312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}