{"id":31566,"date":"2016-11-04T08:03:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/ketchikan-responders-free-man-trapped-in-ice-house-system\/"},"modified":"2016-11-04T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:03:17","slug":"ketchikan-responders-free-man-trapped-in-ice-house-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ketchikan-responders-free-man-trapped-in-ice-house-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketchikan responders free man trapped in ice house system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KETCHIKAN<\/strong> \u2014 One person was transported by ambulance to PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center following a Tuesday afternoon incident at the E.C. Phillips and Son Inc. plant on Tongass Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>A man became trapped in part of the plant\u2019s ice house system, according to Ketchikan Fire Department Assistant Chief Scott Brainard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what happened, how the guy got to where he was,\u201d Brainard said at the scene. \u201cI don\u2019t know if he had a medical issue and then fell down, or I don\u2019t know if the machine caught him and he got in to it. &#8230; He was trapped on the second floor and then the firefighters had to cut a hole in the wall to remove him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It took firefighters about 20 minutes \u2014 using saws and other hand tools \u2014 to cut an approximately 4-by-4 foot hole through both the wood wall and ice to get to the trapped man, according to Brainard and KFD Chief Abner Hoage.<\/p>\n<p>The KFD did not release information on the man\u2019s medical condition following his extraction.<\/p>\n<p>E.C. Phillips workers assisted firefighters in getting the man out of the ice house, Brainard added.<\/p>\n<p>An E.C. Phillips representative confirmed that there was an accident at the plant but did not provide additional information.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This story first appeared in the Ketchikan Daily News, and it is reprinted here with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KETCHIKAN \u2014 One person was transported by ambulance to PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center following a Tuesday afternoon incident at the E.C. Phillips and Son Inc. plant on Tongass Avenue. A man became trapped in part of the plant\u2019s ice house system, according to Ketchikan Fire Department Assistant Chief Scott Brainard. \u201cI don\u2019t know what happened, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-31566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31566","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31566"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}