{"id":253845,"date":"2017-06-06T06:06:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T20:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=253845"},"modified":"2017-06-06T06:06:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T20:06:10","slug":"30-fires-less-2-mos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/30-fires-less-2-mos\/","title":{"rendered":"30 fires in less than 2 mos."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_253854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253854\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Brush-fire-pix.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-253854\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Brush-fire-pix-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Two firefighters wait for a firetruck as a brush fire spreads along the side of the Tun Joaquin Doi Road in Chalan Kanoa Thursday afternoon. An off-duty firefighter who was passing by the area noticed the blaze and immediately called the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services. After a few minutes, firefighters and a small fire truck came and stopped the blaze from burning a power pole and destroying more vegetation. (Ferdie de la Torre)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-253854\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two firefighters wait for a firetruck as a brush fire spreads along the side of the Tun Joaquin Doi Road in Chalan Kanoa Thursday afternoon. An off-duty firefighter who was passing by the area noticed the blaze and immediately called the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services. After a few minutes, firefighters and a small fire truck came and stopped the blaze from burning a power pole and destroying more vegetation. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A total of 30 brush fires hit the CNMI in less than two months, destroying a total of 106.75 acres of vegetation, according to statistics provided yesterday by the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services. <\/p>\n<p>As a result of those fires that occurred from April 10 to May 29, 2017, a total of 15,287 gallons of water were used. That translates to 76.5 of manpower hours. <\/p>\n<p>According to DFEMS, most of the 30 brush fires occurred on Saipan with 21 reported incidents from May 2 to 29, destroying 28 acres of vegetation. A total of 5,152 gallons of water were used and 40 manpower hours were incurred.<\/p>\n<p>On Rota, there were five reported brush fires from May 22 to 27, scorching 28 acres of vegetation. A total of 185 gallons of water were used and 26 man hours were spent.<\/p>\n<p>Tinian had four reported brush fires from April 10 to 25, damaging 50.75 acres of vegetation. A total of 9,950 gallons of water were used and 10.5 man hours were incurred.<\/p>\n<p>DFEMS spokesman Derek Gersonde said the CNMI\u2019s dry season has only begun and now that summer is here, people are anxious to get out and enjoy the outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe break out the tents and grills and make plans for the family,\u201d said Gersonde.<\/p>\n<p>He reminded the public that the best way to battle a grass fire is to prevent it from ever starting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you would like more information, please call DFEMS at 664-9004\/3 or visit us at any of the DFEMS stations,\u201d Gersonde said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 30 brush fires hit the CNMI in less than two months, destroying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":253854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[26,4234,14954,50],"class_list":["post-253845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-cnmi","tag-dfems","tag-emergency-medical-services","tag-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253845","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=253845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}