{"id":26379,"date":"2019-05-10T17:45:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T22:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26379"},"modified":"2019-05-10T17:45:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T22:45:33","slug":"postal-employee-saves-sleeping-customers-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/05\/10\/postal-employee-saves-sleeping-customers-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal employee saves sleeping customers\u2019 lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/heroDwightWashington_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/heroDwightWashington_large-story.jpg 500w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/heroDwightWashington_large-story-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/heroDwightWashington_large-story-71x85.jpg 71w\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"484\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\"><em>Abington, PA, Letter Carrier Dwight Washington<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>USPS News Link &#8211; 5\/10\/19 &#8211; Letter Carrier Dwight Washington was recently delivering mail in an Abington, PA, neighborhood when he spotted a house on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Washington leapt into action, rushing to pound on the front door and also alert neighbors, who called 911.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service employee located a fire extinguisher and a garden hose, and he battled the blaze while the home\u2019s occupants \u2014 who had been asleep \u2014 escaped to safety.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders soon arrived and took over.<\/p>\n<p>Abington Fire Marshal John Rohrer later mailed a letter to the local Post Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad the fire gone unchecked for a few more minutes, the outcome could have been devastating,\u201d Rohrer wrote. \u201cDue to Mr. Washington\u2019s quick, responsible actions, the fire was contained, the residents were saved from harm and the home was deemed to be inhabitable, restoring some normalcy to the family\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A civic commendation for Washington is in the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abington, PA, Letter Carrier Dwight Washington USPS News Link &#8211; 5\/10\/19 &#8211; Letter Carrier Dwight Washington was recently delivering mail in an Abington, PA, neighborhood when he spotted a house on fire. Washington leapt into action, rushing to pound on the front door and also alert neighbors, who called 911. The Postal Service employee located [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26379","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\/26379","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=26379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26380,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26379\/revisions\/26380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}