{"id":64611,"date":"2020-10-23T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/firefighters-respond-to-a-friday-night-fire\/"},"modified":"2020-10-23T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T05:30:00","slug":"firefighters-respond-to-a-friday-night-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/firefighters-respond-to-a-friday-night-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters respond to a Friday night fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people and a dog are OK following a Friday night fire, Capital City Fire\/ Rescue announced.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v8.0\" nonce=\"PQoxXGv5\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At about 10:30 p.m. Friday, CCFR responded to a residential structure fire on the 8000 block of Thunder Street, CCFR said in a social media post. Upon arriving at the Mendenhall Valley area residence, homeowners told firefighters that the fire was in the attic space.<\/p>\n<p>The building&rsquo;s occupants noticed the fire when they smelled something burning, according to CCFR. They used a portable fire extinguisher to try to extinguish the fire. Two people and a dog safely evacuated the home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CapitalCityFireRescue\/posts\/1544254885777070\" data-show-text=\"true\" data-width=\"\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CapitalCityFireRescue\/posts\/1544254885777070\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>10-23-2020  Residential Structure Fire<br \/>\nOn Friday, October 23,2020, at approximately 10:30PM, Capital City Fire Rescue&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CapitalCityFireRescue\/\">Capital City Fire Rescue<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CapitalCityFireRescue\/posts\/1544254885777070\">Saturday, October 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>A fire marshal investigation found the cause of the fire was accidental, according to CCFR.<\/p>\n<p>The upstairs bathroom in the attic space where the fire occurred was in the process of being remodeled, according to CCFR. It was most likely caused by sparks from a grinder that was being used earlier in the evening to cut nails and screws.<\/p>\n<p>The cellulose insulation smoldered in the attic and eventually spread to the roof rafters, according to CCFR. <\/p>\n<p>The home was insured, according to CCFR. Damage is estimated at approximately $5,000.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact Ben Hohenstatt at (907)308-4895 or bhohenstatt@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @BenHohenstatt.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At about 10:30 p.m., CCFR responded to a residential fire on the 8000 block of Thunder Street. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":64612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-64611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64611","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\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64611"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=64611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}