{"id":34875,"date":"2015-02-08T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T01:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=34875"},"modified":"2015-02-08T20:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T01:00:56","slug":"exclusive-hurricane-shutters-and-our-fire-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/02\/exclusive-hurricane-shutters-and-our-fire-department\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Hurricane Shutters <br>and Our Fire Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34876\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34876\" title=\"clam-shell\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/clam-shell-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/clam-shell-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/clam-shell.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eighteen states have a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean, and almost 4,000 miles of the roughly 5,000 miles of U.S. ocean coastline is on the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean. These statistics illustrate the potential for a hurricane\u2019s striking this country. Residents have only a few choices when a hurricane approaches: get out of its way, seek refuge in a shelter, or ride it out at home. Regardless of their choice, many residents try to protect their property (commercial or residential) by covering all openings in the structure with some type of a hurricane shutter.<\/p>\n<p>Headlines such as \u201cHurricane Shutters Were Factor in Florida House Fire That Killed Five\u201d and even loss of life in Lehigh Acres \u2026.. \u201cOne Woman Dies in fire do to Hurricane shutters\u201d \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.these stories document the problems of hurricane shutters and fire issues.<\/p>\n<p>Many articles were written urging property owners to remove shutters from properties when the storms passed and about the fire hazards posed by candles, oil lamps, camping lanterns, and portable gas stoves that were used because of a lack of electricity for weeks on end. Dangerous, improper wiring from generators contributed to the fire hazards. Some residents heeded the warnings; others did not. The firefighters dealt with the results. There were many fires in shuttered structures in the South.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34877\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34877 \" style=\"border-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none; text-align: center; background-color: #f3f3f3;\" title=\"CAM00322\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM00322-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM00322-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM00322-1024x528.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo taken 1\/8\/2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But know what be good enough for the citizens to learn by, may not be good enough for the Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the Lehigh Acres Fire Department has three window blocked by hurricane shutters on station 102 in Homestead Rd.<\/p>\n<p>If a fire would happen in that station there would significant issues of the following:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34878\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34878\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-34878 \" title=\"CAM00005\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM00005-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM00005-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM00005-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM00005.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front of the Homestead Rd Station taken 1\/8\/2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2022 increase the chance for flashover or backdraft.\u00a0 \u2022 make it difficult to determine the location of the seat of the fire.\u00a0 \u2022 fires are not able to self-vent out windows.\u00a0 \u2022 they create more intense heat conditions inside.<\/p>\n<p>Homestead fire station is Lehigh Acres is the main station handling nearly 56% of the call load of the department. What would happen if the station had a fire? And Lehigh Acres fire fighters that would on duty would been trapped inside the station.<\/p>\n<p>Where is the fire board\u2019s liability to protect its employees and the community?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen states have a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean, and almost 4,000 miles of the roughly 5,000 miles of U.S. ocean coastline is on the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}