{"id":6918,"date":"2019-07-21T11:25:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T06:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=6918"},"modified":"2019-07-21T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T06:25:38","slug":"wildfires-hit-central-portugal-1000-firefighters-mobilized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/6918","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires hit central Portugal, 1,000 firefighters mobilized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,000 firefighters battled three blazes sweeping across central Portugal early on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>One village was partially evacuated as a precaution, Portugal\u2019s Civil Protection said, adding that one person was taken by helicopter to a Lisbon hospital with first and second degree burns. Seven firefighters were also injured.<\/p>\n<p>Strong winds are making it tougher for firefighters to put out the blazes, which started on Saturday afternoon in Castelo Branco.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal\u2019s armed forces said 20 soldiers were on their way to support the operation, bringing four bulldozers.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2017, a devastating wildfire in the central town of Pedrogao Grande killed 64 people and injured more than 250.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,000 firefighters battled three blazes sweeping across central Portugal early on Sunday. One village was partially evacuated as a precaution, Portugal\u2019s Civil Protection said, adding that one person was taken by helicopter to a Lisbon hospital with first and second degree burns. Seven firefighters were also injured. Strong winds are making it tougher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6920,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions\/6920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}