{"id":12470,"date":"2015-09-23T22:56:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T03:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12470"},"modified":"2015-09-23T22:56:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T03:56:50","slug":"alabama-letter-carrier-extinguishes-grease-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/09\/23\/alabama-letter-carrier-extinguishes-grease-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama letter carrier extinguishes grease fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title-full\">Heroes\u2019 corner<\/h1>\n<h4 class=\"link-subhead-full\">Alabama employee extinguishes grease fire<\/h4>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"entry-date\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2015-09-23T10:51:54+00:00\">USPS News Link 9\/23\/15<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content full\">\n<div class=\"post-thumbnail\"><a title=\"Moulton, AL, Letter Carrier Jeffery McCrary\" href=\"http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hero_jeff_mccrary_largestory.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hero_jeff_mccrary_largestory.jpg\" alt=\"Moulton, AL, Letter Carrier Jeffery McCrary\" width=\"387\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\">Moulton, AL, Letter Carrier Jeffery McCrary<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>Moulton, AL, Letter Carrier Jeffery McCrary was delivering mail inside an apartment building recently when he heard a woman calling for help.<\/p>\n<p>McCrary ran to an apartment and found fire coming from a stove and climbing a wall. Knowing water isn\u2019t the best way to fight a grease fire, McCrary used salt to extinguish the flames.<\/p>\n<p>The fire did little damage, the apartment manager<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moultonadvertiser.com\/news\/local\/article_e0f96bf0-3093-11e5-a5f4-8380162fc0ec.html\"><em>told<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a>the Moulton Advertiser. If McCrary hadn\u2019t intervened, things could have turned out much worse, the manager said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just glad to be of help,\u201d McCrary said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heroes\u2019 corner Alabama employee extinguishes grease fire USPS News Link 9\/23\/15 Moulton, AL, Letter Carrier Jeffery McCrary Moulton, AL, Letter Carrier Jeffery McCrary was delivering mail inside an apartment building recently when he heard a woman calling for help. McCrary ran to an apartment and found fire coming from a stove and climbing a wall. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12472,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions\/12472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}