{"id":7989,"date":"2014-07-07T15:56:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T20:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7989"},"modified":"2014-07-07T15:56:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T20:56:41","slug":"rural-carrier-saves-mail-after-llv-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/07\/07\/rural-carrier-saves-mail-after-llv-catches-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Carrier saves mail after LLV catches fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USPS News Link &#8211; July 07, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Midlothian, VA, Rural Carrier James Whitt had almost completed his route along a residential street when his LLV backfired and started running roughly. As soon as Whitt turned off the vehicle, the engine caught fire. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2014\/07jul\/images\/news08s2.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Whitt\" width=\"220\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Whitt determined it was safe to unload the vehicle and moved the mail to a nearby lawn while a customer called 911. Firefighters arrived and extinguished the blaze in about two minutes. No one was hurt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Whitt\u2019s Postmaster sent out another truck so Whitt could finish his route.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Later that day, Whitt smiled as he greeted a customer and said, \u201cDon\u2019t worry, I saved your bills for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Whitt\u2019s story and pictures of his burning vehicle were featured in a community newsletter. The headline: \u201cSuper mailman.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USPS News Link &#8211; July 07, 2014 Midlothian, VA, Rural Carrier James Whitt had almost completed his route along a residential street when his LLV backfired and started running roughly. As soon as Whitt turned off the vehicle, the engine caught fire. Whitt determined it was safe to unload the vehicle and moved the mail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-new-bytes","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989","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=7989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7991,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions\/7991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}