{"id":26085,"date":"2019-04-10T08:54:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T13:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26085"},"modified":"2019-04-10T08:54:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T13:54:34","slug":"valiant-postal-carrier-burns-hand-saving-somers-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/04\/10\/valiant-postal-carrier-burns-hand-saving-somers-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Valiant\u2019 Postal Carrier Burns Hand Saving Somers Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The driver of the Somers Post Office mail truck said it was his loyalty to the community and the United States Postal Service that pushed him to try to save whatever he could as his truck went up in flames on Monday, April 8.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Jusino, 34, a Brewster resident, said he was still shaken up and smelled of smoke during a phone call the next day. He\u2019s worked for the Somers Post Office for more than 15 years and was driving the route he\u2019s held for six years when the engine of his mail truck caught fire on Warren Street.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to make everyone aware that I came out OK injury wise,\u201d Jusino said during a phone call Tuesday, April 9. \u201cIt was stressful to be in that situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jonathan Mackey, assistant fire chief for the Somers Volunteer Fire Department, said firefighters could see the smoke billowing up on Warren Street at around 2 p.m. when approaching the truck, which was \u201cwell involved with fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jusino said he didn\u2019t want to get into the details of what happened and was spending time with his wife and two young daughters after the incident. He suffered a burn to his hand when he went into the mail truck to save whatever he could. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

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The driver of the Somers Post Office mail truck said it was his loyalty to the community and the United States Postal Service that pushed him to try to save whatever he could as his truck went up in flames on Monday, April 8. Jonathan Jusino, 34, a Brewster resident, said he was still shaken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26085","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=26085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26088,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26085\/revisions\/26088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}