{"id":258368,"date":"2017-08-18T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=258368"},"modified":"2017-08-18T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T20:06:15","slug":"hazmat-unit-looks-substance-shipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hazmat-unit-looks-substance-shipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazmat unit looks into substance in shipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_258370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-258370\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/substance-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/substance-pix-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-258370\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-258370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wearing protective suits, members of the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services hazmat unit get ready to investigate an unknown liquid substance found in 2-liter bottles that were seized from a shipment from China. The samples that were taken will be sent to an off-island laboratory for further testing. (Derek Gersonde)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CNMI Customs Service sought the assistance of a hazmat unit (hazardous materials) from the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services on Wednesday morning to investigate an unknown liquid substance seized from a shipment from China.<\/p>\n<p>DFEMS spokesman Derek Gersonde said the hazmat unit responded to the Saipan Seaport in Lower Base, at Customs\u2019 request, to investigate the unknown substance. <\/p>\n<p>Gersonde said that Customs personnel found 2-liter bottles filled with the unknown liquid in the shipment.<\/p>\n<p>Six DFEMS personnel completed the operation that began in the morning and lasted until afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Gersonde did not provide information as to who owns the shipment. <\/p>\n<p>Customs has yet to release information on how they were able to intercept the substance. <\/p>\n<p>Samples taken by the hazmat unit will be sent to an off-island laboratory for further testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe remaining content is safely stored within CNMI Customs secure storage room,\u201d he said, adding that further information will be released when available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNMI Customs Service sought the assistance of a hazmat unit (hazardous materials) from the Department&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":258370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4233,4234,14954,17979],"class_list":["post-258368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-derek-gersonde","tag-dfems","tag-emergency-medical-services","tag-saipan-seaport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258368","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=258368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}