{"id":38257,"date":"2018-12-23T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/electrical-fire-shuts-down-ice-rink-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2018-12-24T13:05:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T21:05:20","slug":"electrical-fire-shuts-down-ice-rink-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/electrical-fire-shuts-down-ice-rink-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Kent Valley Ice Centre reopens after Sunday electrical fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentvalleyicecentre.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\">Kent Valley Ice Centre<\/a> reopened Monday after a fire in an electrical panel late Sunday morning shut down the skating rink at 6015 S. 240th St., for one day.<\/p>\n<p>Puget Sound Fire was initially dispatched to a sprinkler alarm at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, that was upgraded to a commercial building fire after reports were received of smoke coming from the compressor room used for the ammonia-based cooling system, according to the Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Staff in the facility quickly and safely evacuated everyone from the building, and there were no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters found a large electrical panel that had caught fire, activating the sprinkler system. By isolating the electrical system, the fire was quickly extinguished. There was no danger of an ammonia leak.<\/p>\n<p>According to the investigator, the fire is considered accidental.<\/p>\n<p>The center is open for public sessions 2:30 to 5 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 24; 2 to 5 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 25; and has three sessions on each day the rest of the week. For a complete schedule, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentvalleyicecentre.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"ice\">kentvalleyicecentre.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to ice skating, the center features an NHL regulation ice rink, five batting cages for baseball and softball practice, a comprehensive pro shop, a cafe and sports bar and an 18-hole mini golf course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public ice skating sessions each day this week <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":38258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-38257","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\/38257"}],"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=38257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38257"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=38257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}