{"id":452,"date":"2010-06-30T11:23:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T18:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2010-06-30T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T18:23:48","slug":"news-brief-downtown-randle-fire-a-little-suspicious-investigator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Downtown Randle fire: A little suspicious, investigator says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A somewhat suspicious fire that destroyed a former gift shop in Randle has been handed over to the sheriff&#8217;s office to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>The small wood-sided building on the 9700 block of U.S. Highway 12 was reported ablaze by a passerby about 2:30 a.m. on June 13, according to fire investigator Ted McCarty. An adjacent one-time beauty salon got scorched and sustained some smoke damage, McCarty said.<\/p>\n<p>The former gift shop, which was assessed at $25,000, was a total loss, McCarty said this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It had been vacant for quite awhile, and it still had power, but the owner had shut all the breakers off before he left a couple months ago,&#8221; McCarty said. &#8220;That made it a little suspicious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fire investigator said he just couldn&#8217;t pinpoint a cause and gave some leads to the Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s office to follow up on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter A somewhat suspicious fire that destroyed a former gift shop in Randle has been handed over to the sheriff&#8217;s office to investigate. The small wood-sided building on the 9700 block of U.S. Highway 12 was reported ablaze by a passerby about 2:30 a.m. on June 13, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}