{"id":254456,"date":"2017-06-15T06:06:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T20:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=254456"},"modified":"2017-06-15T06:06:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T20:06:34","slug":"brush-fire-still-raging-2nd-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/brush-fire-still-raging-2nd-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Brush fire still raging on 2nd day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_254470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-254470\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ferdie-brushfire6-14-17.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-254470\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ferdie-brushfire6-14-17-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The huge brushfire at Wireless Ridge on Capital Hill continues to rage on its second day yesterday, destroying 80 acres of vegetation. (Ferdie de la Torre)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-254470\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-254470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The huge brushfire at Wireless Ridge on Capital Hill continues to rage on its second day yesterday, destroying 80 acres of vegetation. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A brush fire at Wireless Ridge on Capital Hill that began on Tuesday was still raging yesterday, destroying about 80 acres of vegetation. <\/p>\n<p>No house has been burned, according to Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services spokesman Derek Gersonde.<\/p>\n<p>He said department members are in the area, keeping the fire under control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not uncontrollable,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters just let the fire burn vegetation. <\/p>\n<p>Fire engines, however, have been posted next to houses to prevent the blaze from burning structures.<\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said firefighters are also on the lookout for little flying embers that land on roofs of houses that may start spot fires.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, DFEMS reported that a total of 30 brush fires have hit the CNMI in less than two months, destroying 106.75 acres of vegetation. <\/p>\n<p>DFEMS records showed that as a result of those fires that occurred from April 10 to May 29, 2017, a total of 15,287 gallons of water was used. The department also spent 76.5 manpower hours.<\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said the CNMI\u2019s dry season has only begun. He reminded the public that the best way to battle a grass fire is to prevent it from ever starting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brush fire at Wireless Ridge on Capital Hill that began on Tuesday was still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":254470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[182,26,4234,2409],"class_list":["post-254456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-capital-hill","tag-cnmi","tag-dfems","tag-wireless-ridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254456","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=254456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}