{"id":26133,"date":"2012-09-24T15:11:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T12:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=26133"},"modified":"2012-09-24T15:11:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T12:11:41","slug":"spanish-forest-fires-thousands-people-flee-homes-spain-forest-fire-26133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/spanish-forest-fires-thousands-people-flee-homes-spain-forest-fire-26133\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Forest Fires: Thousands people flee homes \/ Spain Forest Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/spanish-fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26144\" title=\"SPAIN FIRE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/spanish-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/spanish-fire.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/spanish-fire-280x157.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Hundreds of firefighters who were backed by aircraft tried to bring a forest blaze under control near the Spanish coast.<\/h2>\n<p>The blaze broke out Sunday afternoon and spread quickly by Monday, threatening villages about 30 miles (50km) inland of Valencia, located on the Mediterranean coast.<\/p>\n<p>Some 500 firefighters on the ground, backed by 27 aircraft, attempted to control the blaze. Thousands were told to leave their villages and several roads were cut off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are trying to protect areas of housing,&#8221; said senior Valencia region government policymaker Serafin Castellano.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now our biggest enemy is the weather, a lot of wind,&#8221; he told Cope radio.<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic images in the Spanish media showed flames lighting up the night sky and illuminating clouds of smoke that billowed along hillsides just behind houses.<\/p>\n<p>Enrique Silvestre, mayor of one of the evacuated villages, Chulilla, said the situation was &#8220;very difficult&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wind is not helping at all and the night was terrible,&#8221; the mayor told Cadena SER radio.<\/p>\n<p>Spain has been at particularly high risk of fires this summer after suffering its driest winter in 70 years.<\/p>\n<p>Flames destroyed more than 184,000 hectares (454,000 acres) of land between January 1 and September 16, the largest amount in a decade, according to agriculture ministry figures.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of firefighters who were backed by aircraft tried to bring a forest blaze under control near the Spanish coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,1,118,14],"tags":[34812,34816,519,34808,34810,34814,34809,34811,34813,34817,34815],"class_list":["post-26133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-fire-under-control-near-spanish-coast","tag-forest-blaze-spain","tag-spain","tag-spain-fires","tag-spain-forest-fire","tag-spain-forest-fire-valencia","tag-spain-forest-fires","tag-spanish-coast-fires","tag-thousands-people-flee-homes","tag-valencia-region-spain-forest-fire","tag-valencia-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}