{"id":32166,"date":"2017-12-28T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/fire-damages-kent-home\/"},"modified":"2017-12-28T11:06:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T19:06:32","slug":"fire-damages-kent-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/fire-damages-kent-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire damages Kent home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kent homeowner and his family are safe Thursday after an early morning fire damaged the attic space of their home in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/24900+35th+Pl+S,+Kent,+WA+98032\/@47.378021,-122.289564,660m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x54905bce0b20a149:0x23239e9f8c72e3bc!8m2!3d47.3782295!4d-122.2869837\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\">24900 block of 35th Place South<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The owner was alerted to the problem at 3:30 a.m., after he heard cracking and popping noises coming from the ceiling above his head, according to a Puget Sound Fire news release. When he couldn&rsquo;t locate a problem inside, he went outside and saw black smoke coming from the attic vents on the sides of the house.<\/p>\n<p>He quickly evacuated his family and called 911. Everyone got out safely.<\/p>\n<p>When firefighters from Puget Sound Fire and South King Fire and Rescue arrived, the flames were beginning to come through the roof. A quick attack of the fire from below extinguished it and prevented it from spreading.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire was an electrical malfunction or short in the home&rsquo;s wiring.<\/p>\n<p>Red Cross assisted the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family escapes safely after owner heard popping noises. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":32167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-32166","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\/32166"}],"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=32166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32166"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}