{"id":249163,"date":"2006-03-24T12:30:58","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/03\/fire-kills-passenger-on-cruise-ship"},"modified":"2006-03-24T12:30:58","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T17:30:58","slug":"fire-kills-passenger-on-cruise-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/03\/fire-kills-passenger-on-cruise-ship","title":{"rendered":"Fire Kills Passenger on Cruise Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire broke out on a cruise ship in the Caribbean on Thursday, killing a passenger, injuring 11 other people and damaging some 150 cabins, officials said, according to Associated Press.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The fire-blackened Star Princess, carrying 2,690 passengers and 1,123 crew members, steamed into the port of this city in north-west Jamaica shortly before noon. Firefighters rushed aboard.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The fire apparently started on a balcony of one of the cabins. A cigarette was suspected of causing the fire.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>A crew member saw an elderly passenger collapse. The passenger was later declared dead.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The victim was described as an elderly American man. Jamaica&#8217;s disaster office said two people remained hospitalized in Montego Bay while two others were being treated in the ship&#8217;s clinic.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fire apparently started on a balcony of one of the cabins. A cigarette was suspected of causing the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}