{"id":227240,"date":"2016-05-09T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=227240"},"modified":"2016-05-09T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T20:00:56","slug":"faulty-wiring-triggers-fire-terlaje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/faulty-wiring-triggers-fire-terlaje\/","title":{"rendered":"Faulty wiring triggers fire in As Terlaje"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_227243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-227243\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Fire-pix-1-300x169.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-227243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters spray water into a semi-concrete house in As Terlaje engulfed in blaze and emitted thick smoke on Friday morning. No one was injured in the fire reported caused by faulty electrical wiring.<br \/>(Derek Gersonde)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Faulty electrical wiring reportedly triggered a fire at a semi-concrete house in As Terlaje on Friday morning.  <\/p>\n<p>No one was reported injured during the blaze, according to Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services spokesman Derek Gersonde. <\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said the fire badly damaged the interior of the single-dwelling, semi-concrete house occupied by a family.<\/p>\n<p>DFEMS received a call from the Department of Public Safety dispatch about a structure fire on Friday at 8:46am.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from Susupe, Kagman, and Koblerville fire stations responded to the location and placed the blaze under control at 9:24am.<\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said Arson Investigation Unit investigators determined that the origin of the fire was by the electric meter box. <\/p>\n<p>The fire spread to the ceiling, then to the kitchen and living room. The fire on the ceiling also engulfed two bedrooms. The bathroom had smoke and heat damage.<\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said DFEMS closed the case after determining that the cause was electrical.<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday, cooking with a gas stove started a fire at a one-story, semi-concrete house occupied by a family in San Vicente.<\/p>\n<p>From Jan. 20 to April 20, 2016, Saipan Tribune recorded at least six fire incidents on Saipan, including a bush fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faulty electrical wiring reportedly triggered a fire at a semi-concrete house in As Terlaje on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":227243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6795,4233,4234,2334],"class_list":["post-227240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-arson-investigation-unit","tag-derek-gersonde","tag-dfems","tag-last-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227240","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=227240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}