{"id":6890,"date":"2013-04-26T09:10:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T13:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=6890"},"modified":"2013-04-26T09:10:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T13:10:17","slug":"new-garden-fire-leaves-40-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=6890","title":{"rendered":"New Garden fire leaves 40 homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Starr Road blaze guts apartment building<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6891\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_0024-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6891\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6891 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"A Thursday morning fire gitted this Starr Road apartment building. Photo courtesy Avondale Fire Company.\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_0024-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_0024-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_0024-300x225-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Thursday morning fire gutted this Starr Road apartment building. <em>Photo courtesy Avondale Fire Company.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>NEW GARDEN \u2014 A fast-moving blaze Thursday morning left about 40 people homeless as an eight-unit apartment building caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>Avondale Fire Company \u2014 along with West Grove and Hockessin, Del. fire companies were alerted to a house fire at 140 Starr Road just before 10 a.m. Thursday, according to reports from the Avondale Fire Company.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports suggested a mother and daughter might have been trapped in a second-floor apartment, reports that proved to be inaccurate. All residents of the building were reported to have gotten out safely. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>However, the fire, which apparently started in one of the eight apartment units, totally gutted the building.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Because ofthe size and intensity of the fire, fire crews from Avondale, West Grove, Kennett, Longwood, Po-Mar-Lin, Hockessin, and Oxford operated for about four hours to bring the blaze under control.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze is now under investigation by the Chester County and State Fire Marshalls. Red Cross and Chester County Emergency agencies are assisting residents with accommodations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starr Road blaze guts apartment building NEW GARDEN \u2014 A fast-moving blaze Thursday morning left about 40 people homeless as an eight-unit apartment building caught fire. Avondale Fire Company \u2014 along with West Grove and Hockessin, Del. fire companies were alerted to a house fire at 140 Starr Road just before 10 a.m. Thursday, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1448,833,2338,55,347,19,1582,1194,1576],"class_list":["post-6890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-avondale-fire-company","tag-fire","tag-hockessin","tag-kennett","tag-longwood","tag-new-garden","tag-oxford","tag-po-mar-lin","tag-west-grove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}