{"id":42074,"date":"2019-12-25T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T17:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42074"},"modified":"2019-12-25T17:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T17:22:23","slug":"helicopters-in-chile-douse-fire-that-destroyed-120-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42074","title":{"rendered":"Helicopters in Chile douse fire that destroyed 120 homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"68.048192771084\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Helicopters dropped water on the outskirts of the Chilean port city of Valparaiso on Wednesday to extinguish a fire that has destroyed more than 120 homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Dozens of people living in the city&#8217;s Rocuant and San Roque hills sifted through the ruins of their homes after the fire, fanned by strong winds, swept through their neighbourhoods on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<h4>More:<\/h4>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Residents had been evacuated and there were no reports of casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities believe arson caused the fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not certain, but everything indicates that yesterday&#8217;s fire was intentional, and began in an area quite close to the homes,&#8221; said Ezio Passadore, emergency manager for Valparaiso.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-embeded-block-image article-embedded-card fullwidth\" readability=\"32\">\n<div class=\"article-embeded-mediaCaption\" data-image-url=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2019\/12\/25\/f4aa32e2c47349d9873dd586ad9ed5ac_18.jpg\" readability=\"9\">\n<div class=\"article-embeded-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive article-embeded-media-img\" title=\"A man looks at the destruction caused by a forest fire at the Rocuant hill in Valparaiso, Chile, on December 25, 2019. More than 100 houses were affected by a forest fire Tuesday in Valparaiso, where a red alert was declared. Pablo Rojas Maradiaga \/ AFP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2019\/12\/25\/f4aa32e2c47349d9873dd586ad9ed5ac_18.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A man looks at the destruction caused by a forest fire at the Rocuant hill in Valparaiso, Chile, on December 25, 2019. More than 100 houses were affected by a forest fire Tuesday in Valparaiso, where \"><\/div>\n<p>A man looks at the destruction caused by a forest fire at the Rocuant hill in Valparaiso, Chile [Pablo Rojas Maradiaga\/ AFP]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many homes in the low-income neighbourhoods where the fire occurred do not have running water and get their supply from tankers a couple of times a week.<\/p>\n<p>Wildfires have affected parts of Valparaiso several times in the last month as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/chile.html\">Chile<\/a> contends with its worst drought on record.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helicopters dropped water on the outskirts of the Chilean port city of Valparaiso on Wednesday to extinguish a fire that has destroyed more than 120 homes. Dozens of people living in the city&#8217;s Rocuant and San Roque hills sifted through the ruins of their homes after the fire, fanned by strong winds, swept through their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}