{"id":11432,"date":"2013-01-24T09:32:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T15:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=11432"},"modified":"2013-01-24T15:54:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T21:54:33","slug":"fire-jamestown-legacy-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=11432","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Former Jamestown Hospital Bldg, photos &#038; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Jan 24, 2013) \u2013 The Jamestown City Fire Department was called out at 9:45 -a.m., on Thursday (Jan 24th) to the former Jamestown Hospital building, at 419 5<sup>th<\/sup> St NE, currently being renovated into senior apartments (Legacy Living).<\/p>\n<p>[easyrotator align=&#8221;left&#8221;]erc_70_1359047754[\/easyrotator]<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports indicated that smoke was coming from the basement of the building, called in by demolition workers.<\/p>\n<p>Video News from KCSI TV &#8211;\u00a0 more story below video<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/NP62yplVcBs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jamestown Police Sgt., Justin Blinsky said the daycare facility, on the first floor, south end, ME\u2019s 21st Century Daycare, was evacuated as a precaution, where 26 children were safely evacuated from the building, to the adjacent Lincoln School building, gymnasium with the assistance of police and fire fighters.<\/p>\n<p>The children ranged in age from six months to 5 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>15 construction workers were also evacuated from the building.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown City Fire Department Assistant Chief, Jerry Kainz said the fire started in the lower level of the building, where demolition work was being done.<\/p>\n<p>He said workers were using a cutting torch on metal, in the tunnel area, located under the former hospital\u2019s laundry and kitchen facilities, when sparks ignited wood in the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>City fire fighters belly-crawled into the area and soaked down the fire and adjacent area.<\/p>\n<p>Kainz added the fire was small, but created lots of smoke.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was contained to the tunnel space, and no other smoke damage was reported to the rest of the building.<\/p>\n<p>He said there is fire alarm protection in the building.<\/p>\n<p>24 city fire fighters responded with six units on the scene until 10:34 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The former hospital building is being converted into apartments for senior citizens, future space for the James River Community Center, commercial space, and community space.<\/p>\n<p>24 city fire fighters responded with six units on the scene until 10:34 a.m. Temperature at the time was -3F.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Photos by Matt Sheppard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Jan 24, 2013) \u2013 The Jamestown City Fire Department was called out at 9:45 -a.m., on Thursday (Jan 24th) to the former Jamestown Hospital building, at 419 5th St NE, currently being renovated into senior apartments (Legacy Living). [easyrotator align=&#8221;left&#8221;]erc_70_1359047754[\/easyrotator] Initial reports indicated that smoke was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11432"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11469,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432\/revisions\/11469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}