{"id":41787,"date":"2014-03-27T14:20:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T19:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=41787"},"modified":"2014-03-27T18:11:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T23:11:22","slug":"ten-residents-displaced-apartment-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=41787","title":{"rendered":"Cause Of Fire Determined To Be Smoking Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"610<\/a>Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 The probable cause of the Saturday March 22, 2014 Northeast Jamestown apartment building fire has been released.<\/p>\n

Jamestown City Fire Chief, Jim Reuther says\u00a0 with the information collected from firefighters, photos taken at the scene, information collected from interviews and working with private fire investigators, it would indicate that most probable cause would be smoking materials .<\/p>\n

He says this\u00a0concludes the fire investigation and this fire investigation would be considered to be closed unless further evidence is obtained.<\/p>\n

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Reported previously…<\/p>\n

Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 The Jamestown City Fire Department responded early Saturday morning to an apartment building fire at 610 14th Street Northeast.<\/p>\n

The call came in at about 2:30-a.m.,\u00a0 to the four-plex.<\/p>\n

Jamestown Police Department\u00a0 evacuated the building before the fire\u00a0units arrived, and\u00a0 as many as three police officers may have been treated for smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n

Jamestown\u00a0 City Fire Department Chief Jim Reuther said,\u00a0 the four-plex was searched three times, and no one was trapped inside, as had been feared.<\/p>\n

Reuther says five units and 25 firefighters battled the blaze for three hours and 20 minutes.\u00a0\u00a0 The fire spread into the walls and insulation of the building.<\/p>\n

Reuther said the fire began in the upper level of the southeast corner of the building and spread to the attic and the apartment below it.<\/p>\n

Lt. Sheldon Mohr says no one was hurt, but two of the apartments had extensive fire damage and the other two had smoke damage.<\/p>\n

Otter Tail Power\u00a0Company disconnected\u00a0electrical service\u00a0to the building,\u00a0 still uninhabitable on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Buffalo Valley Red Cross volunteers\u00a0and \u00a0Manager, Beth Dewald\u00a0were on the scene by 3 a.m.<\/p>\n

Ten Jamestown residents were displaced.<\/p>\n

The Red Cross then provided housing, clothing and comfort for the 10\u00a0 fire-displaced residents,\u00a0 two were\u00a0children.<\/p>\n

Ms. Dewald siad after the initial assistance, follow up with some of\u00a0thE clients, will continue\u00a0\u00a0over\u00a0the next few days depending on needs.<\/p>\n

Referrals can be made to Red Cross partners to provide assistance in the future.<\/p>\n

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n

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Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 The probable cause of the Saturday March 22, 2014 Northeast Jamestown apartment building fire has been released. Jamestown City Fire Chief, Jim Reuther says\u00a0 with the information collected from firefighters, photos taken at the scene, information collected from interviews and working with private fire investigators, it would indicate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41787"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41790,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41787\/revisions\/41790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}