{"id":106001,"date":"2024-01-06T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/mendenhall-towers-fire-causes-about-100000-damage-one-person-hospitalized-for-smoke-inhalation\/"},"modified":"2024-01-06T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T06:30:00","slug":"mendenhall-towers-fire-causes-about-100000-damage-one-person-hospitalized-for-smoke-inhalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/mendenhall-towers-fire-causes-about-100000-damage-one-person-hospitalized-for-smoke-inhalation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mendenhall Towers fire causes about $100,000 damage, one person hospitalized for smoke inhalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire at the Mendenhall Towers apartment building early Sunday morning caused about $100,000 of damage and resulted in one person being hospitalized for smoke inhalation, according to Capital City Fire\/Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The fire occurred in an apartment on the second floor of the downtown building on 4th Street, according to a statement posted on CCFR&rsquo;s Facebook page at 4:03 a.m. The statement noted the sprinkler system was activated, but the initial fire crew on scene extinguished the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There were lots of smoke in the (second) floor,&rdquo; the statement noted. &ldquo;No fire extended outside the apartment and smoke confined to the (second) floor.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The cause remains under investigation, according to CCFR. The local American Red Cross office was notified to help out any displaced occupants.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With the fire and mostly water damage on the (second) floor and below, estimated $100,000 for damages,&rdquo; CCFR reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktoo.org\/2018\/07\/05\/emergency-personnel-respond-to-report-of-fire-at-mendenhall-tower\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A fire in 2018 in the building<\/a> that originated in a third-floor apartment damaged about 25 units, much of it caused by water fighting the fire, although no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCFR: Fire early Sunday morning limited to one apartment, cause remains under investigation <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":106002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[93],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-106001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106001"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=106001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}