{"id":2776,"date":"2011-01-24T14:56:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T22:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2011-01-24T14:56:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T22:56:53","slug":"house-fire-on-alamitos-ave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=2776","title":{"rendered":"House Fire on Alamitos Ave"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>The Long Beach Fire Department received a call at 7:27am this morning for a house fire at 1447 Alamitos Ave.\u00a0 Engine 10 arrived on scene in three minutes and reported smoke showing at the rear of the structure.\u00a0 Upon investigation they found a fire that appeared to have started in a wall furnace and had extended into the attic.\u00a0 Firefighters from Engine 10 pulled a hose line and initiated fire attack while others from Truck 7 used chainsaws and other hand tools to check for fire extension.\u00a0 Due to their aggressive actions the fire was extinguished in three minutes and contained to the unit of origin.\u00a0 There was a significant amount of heat and smoke damage that made the unit uninhabitable.\u00a0 The Red Cross was called out to assist the family of four that been displaced.\u00a0 It was later reported that there were no functioning smoke detectors in this home.\u00a0 Fortunately the fire was discovered quickly by one of the residents and the family was able to get out in time.\u00a0 Had this fire occurred when everyone was asleep the consequences would have been tragic.\u00a0 Smoke detectors have been proven to save lives.\u00a0 The Long Beach Fire Department has a limited supply of smoke detectors which are available free of charge (2 per household).\u00a0 Please call (562) 570-2519 for more information.\u00a0 A Battalion Chief, Arson Investigator, Public Information Officer and 18 Firefighters responded to this incident that occurred in the 6<sup>th<\/sup> Council District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Long Beach Fire Department received a call at 7:27am this morning for a house fire at 1447 Alamitos Ave.\u00a0 Engine 10 arrived on scene in three minutes and reported smoke showing at the rear of the structure.\u00a0 Upon investigation they found a fire that appeared to have started in a wall furnace and had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}