{"id":401116,"date":"2020-10-05T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T08:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=401116"},"modified":"2020-10-05T11:15:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T08:15:44","slug":"dozens-of-homes-razed-in-new-zealand-bushfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/dozens-of-homes-razed-in-new-zealand-bushfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of homes razed in New Zealand bushfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New zealand<strong>(SONNA)<\/strong>&#8211; Bushfires have destroyed dozens of homes in New Zealand, authorities said on Monday, saying it was a miracle no one was hurt when \u201ca wall of orange\u201d descended on a remote South Island village.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze began in a mountain forest early on Sunday morning and, fanned by strong winds, swept through the village of Lake Ohau, forcing residents to flee for their lives.<\/p>\n<p>According to the New Zealand fire emergency agency on Monday, at least 4,600 hectares (11,366 acres) of land were affected by the blaze, which also displaced more than 100 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe high winds meant the fire could not yet be contained and the situation may change rapidly with any shift in the wind,\u201d Fire and Emergency New Zealand said.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage we are confident that crews would have achieved 50 percent control of the fire perimeter by tomorrow night,\u201d it added on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said up to 50 structures were destroyed and conditions remained \u201cchallenging\u201d, with 11 helicopters and nine fire crews attempting to contain the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Damage assessment was still underway.<\/p>\n<p>Waitaki District mayor Gary Kircher said the tiny Lake Ohau community had been devastated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf the 60 or 70 houses, we believe that the majority have gone,\u201d he told Radio New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/000_8RF3KU-1.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is that it\u2019s a minor miracle no one has been harmed. If it had been another 15-20 minutes, it would have been a very different story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>@<strong>Aljazeera<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New zealand(SONNA)&#8211; Bushfires have destroyed dozens of homes in New Zealand, authorities said on Monday, saying it was a miracle no one was hurt when \u201ca wall of orange\u201d descended on a remote South Island village. The blaze began in a mountain forest early on Sunday morning and, fanned by strong winds, swept through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401120,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401116\/revisions\/401120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}