{"id":30157,"date":"2017-08-29T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/haz-mat-crews-respond-to-green-river-spill-near-kent\/"},"modified":"2017-08-30T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T18:13:32","slug":"haz-mat-crews-respond-to-green-river-spill-near-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/haz-mat-crews-respond-to-green-river-spill-near-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Haz mat crews respond to Green River spill near Kent | Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hazardous materials response teams from Puget Sound Fire and Tukwila Fire responded to a report of a possible leak of an unknown substance in the Green River at 1:53 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>When firefighters arrived at the South 196th Street overpass, they could see a sheen of something on the surface of the river, according to a Puget Sound Fire media release. They quickly set out two sets of absorbent booms across the river; one at the bridge and one further downstream where the river runs through the city of Tukwila, to stop the movement of the material.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters and Guardian 1, the King County Sheriff&rsquo;s Office helicopter, were unable to locate the source as they traveled along the river levee.<\/p>\n<p>Initial testing of the material showed it to be petroleum based.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation and removal of the material was turned over to the state Department of Ecology once the flow of the substance was stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazardous materials response teams from Puget Sound Fire and Tukwila Fire responded to a report of a possible leak of an unknown substance in the Green River at 1:53 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":30158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-30157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30157"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30157"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}