{"id":9224,"date":"2011-10-25T10:53:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=9224"},"modified":"2011-10-25T10:53:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:53:08","slug":"news-brief-overnight-house-fire-in-onalaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=9224","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Overnight house fire in Onalaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A family of four escaped a house fire in Onalaska overnight and the cause is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis County Fire Districts 1 and 8 called about 2:15 a.m. to the home on 1800 block of state Route 508 spotted flames coming out a window and roof vents in the front corner of the upper level, according to District 1 Chief Mark Conner.<\/p>\n<p>A teenage girl awakened to the smell of smoke and saw fire in her closet, Fire Investigator Ted McCarty said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She told her sister sleeping in the next bedroom and they ran downstairs and woke up mom and the younger brother,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was contained to the bedroom and closet, but it left lots of heat and smoke damage upstairs, according to McCarty.<\/p>\n<p>Both the chief and the investigator said there was a wall heater in there, but it didn&#8217;t seem to be the problem.<\/p>\n<p>McCarty planned to return in the daylight to try to pinpoint the cause.<\/p>\n<p>The family is staying with relatives and the Red Cross was called to assist, the chief said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter A family of four escaped a house fire in Onalaska overnight and the cause is under investigation. Lewis County Fire Districts 1 and 8 called about 2:15 a.m. to the home on 1800 block of state Route 508 spotted flames coming out a window and roof [&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-9224","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\/9224","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=9224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9227,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions\/9227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}