{"id":219155,"date":"2016-01-21T06:06:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T20:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=219155"},"modified":"2016-01-21T06:06:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T20:06:53","slug":"fire-engulfs-car-shipping-container","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/fire-engulfs-car-shipping-container\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire engulfs car, shipping container"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_219158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219158\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Fire-pix.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Fire-pix-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Thick, black smoke billows from the burning shipping container at the old dumpsite in Puerto Rico yesterday at noon. A worker cutting the container using an acetylene torch triggered the fire, according to arson investigators. (DEREK GERSONDE) \" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thick, black smoke billows from the burning shipping container at the old dumpsite in Puerto Rico yesterday at noon. A worker cutting the container using an acetylene torch triggered the fire, according to arson investigators. (DEREK GERSONDE)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nA car caught fire in front of Mount Carmel School in Chalan Kanoa while another fire broke out at a shipping container at the old dumpsite in Puerto Rico yesterday.  <\/p>\n<p>No one was reported injured in the two incidents, according to Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services spokesman Derek Gersonde.<\/p>\n<p>DFEMS received a call about a vehicle on fire in front of Mount Carmel at 11:22am.<\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said firefighters and arson investigators from Susupe Fire Station responded and placed the blaze under control at 11:33am.<\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said arson investigators determined that mechanical failure caused the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause of the fire is still under investigation. Updates will be released when they are available,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>No information was provided as to the owner of the car.<\/p>\n<p>In the Puerto Rico fire, Gersonde said DFEMS received a call about a shipping container that was on fire at 12:15pm.<\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said firefighters and arson investigators from Garapan and Susupe fire stations responded and place the fire under control at 12:23pm.<\/p>\n<p>Arson investigators determined that the fire broke out after a worker was cutting the container using an acetylene torch.<\/p>\n<p>The heat transferred from the container and ignited the combustible insulation of the container.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause of the fire is accidental, therefore this case is closed by DFEMS,\u201d Gersonde said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A car caught fire in front of Mount Carmel School in Chalan Kanoa while another&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":219158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[4234,1111,90,7167],"class_list":["post-219155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-dfems","tag-mount-carmel-school","tag-puerto-rico","tag-susupe-fire-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219155","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=219155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}