{"id":13565,"date":"2020-03-17T12:23:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=13565"},"modified":"2020-03-17T12:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T15:23:14","slug":"quick-thinking-prevents-fire-from-extending-into-home-in-enfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=13565","title":{"rendered":"Quick thinking prevents fire from extending into home in Enfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ENFIELD:<\/strong> Firefighters from four Corridor fire departments responded to an early morning structure fire on Alderney Drive in Enfield on Tuesday morning, March 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Captain Jon Heffernan, who was Incident Command at the call\nin the 100 block of Alderney Drive, said fire crews were met with heavy smoke\nfrom the attached garage.&nbsp; One person evacuated\nthemselves from the home with no injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a quick knockdown with no extension from the house,\u201d said\nHeffernan. \u201cThe fire was discovered early and 911 called promptly which help\nconfine damage to the garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approximately 25 firefighters from Enfield, Elmsdale, Lantz, and Nine\nMile River along with N.S. Power, EHS, and Enfield RCMP responded to the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heffernan said there was a lot of smoke and water damage to the home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe cause of the fire we believe to be electrical in nature,\u201d he said. \u201cThe\nfirefighters of East Hants worked hard quickly and with professionalism and\nthat led to no fire damage to the home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He wanted to remind everyone that if they are using portable heaters to keep the clear and not to leave them on if no one is around.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> [adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;] <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENFIELD: Firefighters from four Corridor fire departments responded to an early morning structure fire on Alderney Drive in Enfield on Tuesday morning, March 17. Captain Jon Heffernan, who was Incident Command at the call in the 100 block of Alderney Drive, said fire crews were met with heavy smoke from the attached garage.&nbsp; One person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[196,390,32],"class_list":["post-13565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-east-hants","tag-enfield","tag-firefighters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}