{"id":16145,"date":"2012-04-08T10:18:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T17:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/fire-destroys-recycling-facility-in-downtown-kent\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T20:35:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T03:35:34","slug":"fire-destroys-recycling-facility-in-downtown-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/fire-destroys-recycling-facility-in-downtown-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys recycling facility in downtown Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A two-alarm fire destroyed a recycling facility for carpeting and carpet padding in downtown Kent on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Firefighting crews from Kent and nearby departments responded to the fire at approximately 4 p.m. First-responding crews found heavy black smoke and flames from the structure in the 700 block of Central Avenue North.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The building is a total loss with structural collapse of exterior walls and parts of the roof complex. The building was unstable, preventing crews from entering the structure, the Kent Fire Department said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There were no employees in the building at the time the fire began. There were no injuries to firefighters or civilians as of late Sunday evening, Kent fire officials reported.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Crew fought a stubborn fire, primarily because it had deep piles of carpeting and carpet padding and because access to the fire was limited.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There is no damage estimate available.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The fire remains under investigation.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-alarm fire destroyed a recycling facility for carpeting and carpet padding in downtown Kent on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16145"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}