{"id":45595,"date":"2015-03-24T16:50:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T08:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45595"},"modified":"2015-03-25T01:57:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T17:57:59","slug":"rain-helps-quell-benguet-forest-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/24\/rain-helps-quell-benguet-forest-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain helps quell Benguet forest fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23365\" style=\"width: 839px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BC-wildfire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23365\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BC-wildfire.jpg\" alt=\"BC Wildfire (screengrab from ufoscandinavia footage)\" width=\"839\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BC-wildfire.jpg 839w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BC-wildfire-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(screengrab)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BENGUET\u00a0 &#8212; The heavy downpour in Benguet helped in putting out forest fires in the province over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,800 hectares of forest land was gutted by fire in eight barangays of Bokod, Benguet.<\/p>\n<p>Bokod Mayor Mauricio Makay, in an interview on Tuesday, said the fire started Wednesday last week in Barangays Pitu, Bobok and Bangao.<\/p>\n<p>The Bokod fire department declared \u2018fire out\u2019 only on Sunday, March 22, with the help of the downpour, Makay said.<\/p>\n<p>Affected barangays include Ekip, Bobok, Bila, Daclan, Ambuklao and Poblacion.<\/p>\n<p>Makay said firefighters received a late bush fire report on Thursday from Barangay Pitu, which may have been started by a deranged man lighting a cigarette.<\/p>\n<p>The firefighters suspect that the fire in Bobok may have been caused by farmers who forgot to extinguish their camp fire after cooking.<\/p>\n<p>Both fires spread rapidly because of the wind and dried pine needles.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the report of the fire department, there were no injuries nor damage to properties incurred during the fire incident, Makay added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGUET\u00a0 &#8212; The heavy downpour in Benguet helped in putting out forest fires in the province over the weekend. More &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}