{"id":317395,"date":"2017-07-15T04:14:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T03:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/3-dead-as-5-alarm-fire-traps-people-in-honolulu-high-rise-reports\/"},"modified":"2017-07-15T04:14:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T03:14:46","slug":"3-dead-as-5-alarm-fire-traps-people-in-honolulu-high-rise-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/3-dead-as-5-alarm-fire-traps-people-in-honolulu-high-rise-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"3 dead as 5-alarm fire traps people in Honolulu high-rise \u2013 reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/static.en\/thumbnail\/breaking.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 15 Jul, 2017 02:44 <\/time><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 15 Jul, 2017 03:14 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        Three people have died, as at least 60 firefighters are battling a massive five-alarm fire in a condominium building in Honolulu, Hawaii. Two people have reportedly been hospitalized in serious condition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p>As of 4:45pm local time (10:45pm Eastern) the flames continued to spread to multiple floors.<\/p>\n<p>By 4:30pm local time, the fire was raised from a four-alarm to a five-alarm, KHON <a href=\"http:\/\/khon2.com\/2017\/07\/14\/firefighters-respond-to-3-alarm-fire-in-marco-polo-building\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 firefighters have responded to the Marco Polo building, where the fire began on the 26th floor of the 36-floor building around 2:20pm local time,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/story\/35890749\/firefighters-battling-high-rise-apartment-blaze-in-mccully\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a>\u00a0to HawaiiNewsNow.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis lady\u2019s voice, I\u2019m not kidding you. I\u2019m trembling. She\u2019s like help me, help me, and I couldn\u2019t see her because the smoke was so dark,\u201d<\/em> resident Teresa Sommerville told KHON.<em> \u201cAll of a sudden the wind shifts and you see this lady is standing inside the lanai. She\u2019s not standing over the edge or anything, and she\u2019s like \u2018Help me, help me.&#8217;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the Associated Press, Honolulu Emergency Medical Services treated two patients and transported them in serious and stable condition to a hospital. Emergency medical technicians and\u00a0two fire chiefs have been evaluating patients for smoke inhalation, and a triage center has been established in the building, AP reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The American Red Cross of Honolulu has also joined the emergency response, according to HawaiiNewsNow. A volunteer told the news outlet that the Red Cross is ready to house 800 people overnight if necessary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/396394-honolulu-hawaii-fire-building-people-trapped\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 15 Jul, 2017 02:44 Edited time: 15 Jul, 2017 03:14 Three people have died, as at least 60 firefighters are battling a massive five-alarm fire in a condominium building in Honolulu, Hawaii. Two people have reportedly been hospitalized in serious condition. As of 4:45pm local time (10:45pm Eastern) the flames continued to spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-317395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}