{"id":5119,"date":"2024-07-13T08:05:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T04:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2025-02-25T11:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T07:48:12","slug":"no-injuries-reported-after-car-engine-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2024\/07\/13\/no-injuries-reported-after-car-engine-catches-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"No injuries reported after car engine catches fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Staff Report<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 No injuries were reported Thursday afternoon when American University of Sharjah security personnel, responding to a motorist whose vehicle had stalled near the Sports Complex, ended up battling an engine fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security officers were already on their way to assist the Arabic-speaking driver when at about 3:50 p.m. the vehicle\u2019s engine suddenly burst into flames. They fought the fire with extinguishers, including some provided by motorists, as well as a large, wheeled unit stored in the Sports Complex. Onlookers could hear windows cracking and bursting from the heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other security personnel blocked access to the scene and rerouted late-afternoon campus traffic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharjah firefighters arrived on campus shortly after 4 p.m. and used special equipment to open the hood and finally put out the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Report UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 No injuries were reported Thursday afternoon when American University of Sharjah security personnel, responding to a motorist whose vehicle had stalled near the Sports Complex, ended up battling an engine fire. Security officers were already on their way to assist the Arabic-speaking driver when at about 3:50 p.m. the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[33,32,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-5119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-campus","10":"tag-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}