{"id":33537,"date":"2018-03-09T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/firefighters-extinguish-house-fire-on-kents-west-hill\/"},"modified":"2018-03-09T12:25:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T20:25:52","slug":"firefighters-extinguish-house-fire-on-kents-west-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/firefighters-extinguish-house-fire-on-kents-west-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters extinguish house fire on Kent&#8217;s West Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters from Puget Sound Fire and South King Fire and Rescue responded shortly before 8 a.m. Friday to a house fire in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2900+S+253rd+St,+Kent,+WA+98032\/@47.3751238,-122.2989144,660m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x54905a329340e1ff:0x9cdfadebe0cfb7da!8m2!3d47.3751238!4d-122.2967257\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\"> 2900 block of South 253rd Street<\/a> on Kent&rsquo;s West Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Several 911 callers reported that the house was possibly abandoned. The house is just east of the Fred Meyer store.<\/p>\n<p>When firefighters arrived, they found a small two-story home with flames and smoke coming from the second floor, according to a Puget Sound Fire news release. Because of the reports that the house was unoccupied, firefighters attacked the fire from the outside before going inside.<\/p>\n<p>Two searches of the house confirmed that no one was inside. Trespassers have been known to occupy the house, according to Puget Sound Fire.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators reported the cause of the fire as &ldquo;undetermined&rdquo; due to lack of evidence of an exact cause.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle-based Belfor Property Restoration assisted with boarding up the house as a cost-free public service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abandoned home on South 253rd Street <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":33538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33537","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\/33537"}],"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=33537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33537"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}