{"id":55322,"date":"2000-12-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-12-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/968abb07-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2000-12-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-12-27T00:00:00","slug":"968abb20-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/968abb20-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire briefly shuts Sydney airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Australia (AP) \u2014 Sydney Airport was briefly closed to aircraft Friday afternoon after a small fire forced the evacuation of its control tower.<\/p>\n<p>An electrical fault sparked the blaze shortly before 4:30 p.m. local time, forcing five air traffic controllers to leave the tower. Controllers quickly resumed work in an old control tower at the airport in southeast Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of international and domestic passengers were using the airport Friday as they flew into or out of Sydney for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was injured in the fire. But Richard Dudley, a spokesman for the government body responsible for air traffic control throughout the country, said delays were to be expected into the evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until we can ascertain &#8230; what sort of damage has taken place in the tower, there will be some delays,&#8221; he told Australian television&#8217;s Network Ten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Airport was briefly closed to aircraft Friday afternoon after a small fire forced the evacuation of its control tower. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55322","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}