{"id":694090,"date":"2010-03-17T14:10:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T18:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a9497753970b"},"modified":"2010-03-17T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T18:10:10","slug":"revelers-suffer-burns-at-persian-new-year-party-at-l-a-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/694090","title":{"rendered":"Revelers suffer burns at Persian New Year party at L.A. beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Fire Department medics were called to Dockweiler State Beach several times to treat people who suffered burns at a Persian New Year celebration, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Medics responded to four calls near the beach between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. Tuesday and took three people to local hospitals, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott.\u00a0No serious injuries were reported. <\/p>\n<p>The new year&#8217;s celebration\u00a0of Nowruz drew from 7,000 to 10,000 revelers to the beach, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. <\/p>\n<p>As a part of the festivities, participants leap over small bonfires, an act that\u00a0symbolizes the\u00a0transition into a new year. Because of Los Angeles&#8217; strict fire codes, Iranians living in Southern California often celebrate at local beaches, where fires are allowed. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kate Linthicum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Fire Department medics were called to Dockweiler State Beach several times to treat people who suffered burns at a Persian New Year celebration, officials said Wednesday. Medics responded to four calls near the beach between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. Tuesday and took three people to local hospitals, said Los Angeles Fire Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3904,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Uz0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}