{"id":6807,"date":"2011-06-10T19:05:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T02:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=6807"},"modified":"2011-06-10T19:05:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T02:05:50","slug":"news-brief-house-fire-in-morton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=6807","title":{"rendered":"News brief: House fire in Morton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nFire erupted in a house in Morton this morning, displacing its residents.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis County Fire District 4 was called about 11:10 a.m. to the 400 block of Westlake Avenue where a kitchen was fully engulfed in flames and the windows were blowing out, according to Fire Investigator Ted McCarty.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was injured, but the kitchen was destroyed and the rest of the home suffered smoke, heat and water damage, McCarty said.<\/p>\n<p>McCarty said it began when the contents of an oil lamp were accidentally spilled on the electrical outlet for the hot water heater. The resident went to get a rag to clean it up and when he returned he saw smoke and then fire started creeping up the wall, McCarty said.<\/p>\n<p>The damage was extensive enough the residents can&#8217;t stay there, according to McCarty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Red Cross has been called and they&#8217;re putting them up, I understand, for a few days,&#8221; McCarty said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter Fire erupted in a house in Morton this morning, displacing its residents. Lewis County Fire District 4 was called about 11:10 a.m. to the 400 block of Westlake Avenue where a kitchen was fully engulfed in flames and the windows were blowing out, according to Fire [&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-6807","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\/6807","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=6807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6810,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6807\/revisions\/6810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}