{"id":63617,"date":"2020-09-16T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/firefighters-extinguish-fire-in-box-truck\/"},"modified":"2020-09-16T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T06:30:00","slug":"firefighters-extinguish-fire-in-box-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/firefighters-extinguish-fire-in-box-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters extinguish fire in box truck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t

Capital City Fire\/Rescue personnel extinguished a fire in the back of a moving truck on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

No one was hurt as a result of the fire, said CCFR Fire Marshal Dan Jager, who was at the scene of the fire.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Employees were attempting to remove a liftgate with a cutting torch, Jager said. Sparks from the effort caught paper and cardboard in the truck. Efforts by the employees to put out the fire with extinguishers were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

The truck was located at a business on the 3200 block of Hospital Drive. The fire occurred near ongoing construction in the area, but it was unrelated.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

\"Firefighters<\/a>

Firefighters respond to a vehicle fire on Hospital Drive the afternoon of Sept. 17, 2020. The cause of the brief blaze was an attempt to remove a liftgate, said Fire Marshal Dan Jager. (Ben Hohenstatt \/ Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

The call came to CCFR at 2:40 p.m., Jager said, and it was mostly extinguished by 3 p.m., Jager said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

The business is currently working on a damage estimate.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

• Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at (757) 621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em> Ben Hohenstatt contributed reporting to this article. <\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Workers attempting to remove a lift gate open accidently started the fire. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":63618,"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":[93,75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-63617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-fire","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63617","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63617"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}