{"id":143273,"date":"2018-01-02T20:53:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T01:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=143273"},"modified":"2018-01-02T20:53:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T01:53:01","slug":"zero-indiscriminate-firing-lower-firecracker-injuries-in-negocc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/02\/zero-indiscriminate-firing-lower-firecracker-injuries-in-negocc\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero indiscriminate firing, lower firecracker injuries in NegOcc"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_141713\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141713\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/16030335500_4e5e004534_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141713\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/16030335500_4e5e004534_z.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Several police stations confiscated and destroyed illegal firecrackers hours before the New Year.  (Photo by Andr\u00e9 Hofmeister\/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/16030335500_4e5e004534_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/16030335500_4e5e004534_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Several police stations confiscated and destroyed illegal firecrackers hours before the New Year.<br \/>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exil-fischkopp\/16030335500\/in\/photolist-qqxEfQ-pNGCgm-Xb6ZZa-wcQep-wcQej-7CKEoU-7DHfew-PMbDJ-CyrYYw-8nDhn\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exil-fischkopp\/\">Andr\u00e9 Hofmeister\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>BACOLOD CITY\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0Not a single incident of indiscriminate firing was recorded in Negros Occidental during the Christmas and New Year holidays, the police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am glad that our intensified campaign on \u2018Ligtas Paskuhan\u2019 and \u2018Iwas Paputok\u2019 has had a peaceful outcome,\u201d Provincial Police director, Senior Supt. Rodolfo Castil Jr., said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Negros Occidental Police records showed that as of Jan. 1, only 13 were injured by firecrackers between Christmas and New Year, compared to five incidents of indiscriminate firing and 39 firecracker-related injuries in the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>On New Year\u2019s Eve, police stations in Negros Occidental intensified the \u201cLigtas Paskuhan\u201d and \u201cIwas Paputok\u201d campaigns by inspecting firecracker vendors and distributing flyers with reminders on how to welcome 2018 using safe and alternative merry-making devices and avoiding indiscriminate firing.<\/p>\n<p>Several police stations confiscated and destroyed illegal firecrackers hours before the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>Castil lauded Negros Occidental Police personnel for \u201ca job well done\u201d and for heeding the directives of Philippine National Police chief Ronald de la Rosa on indiscriminate firing.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed his appreciation to the Negrenses, other government agencies, and non-governmental organizations for providing support to the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BACOLOD CITY\u2014\u00a0Not a single incident of indiscriminate firing was recorded in Negros Occidental during the Christmas and New Year holidays, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":141713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[41417,41416],"class_list":["post-143273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-lower-firecracker-injuries-in-negocc","tag-zero-indiscriminate-firing","mauthors-nanette-guadalquiver","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}