{"id":6873,"date":"2014-04-14T16:46:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T08:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2014-04-14T16:46:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T08:46:28","slug":"chile-forest-fire-destroys-at-least-500-homes-forces-evacuations-in-city-of-valparaiso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/14\/chile-forest-fire-destroys-at-least-500-homes-forces-evacuations-in-city-of-valparaiso\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile forest fire destroys at least 500 homes, forces evacuations in city of Valparaiso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"ArticleTitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_75911980.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6296\" alt=\"shutterstock_75911980\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_75911980.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_75911980.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_75911980-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_75911980-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"Date\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>SANTIAGO, Chile &#8211; A large forest fire raging in the Chilean port city of Valparaiso destroyed at least 500 homes and was forcing evacuations Sunday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>President Michelle Bachelet has declared the city a catastrophe zone, which puts the armed forces in charge of maintaining order and evacuating thousands of people affected by the smoke and flames.<\/p>\n<p>Valparaiso Mayor Jorge Castro said &#8220;at least 500 homes have been destroyed by the fire.&#8221; He said shelters for those forced to flee have been set up.<\/p>\n<p>Castro said earlier the city was without electricity and the flames were &#8220;advancing in an apparently uncontrollable manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were having difficulty combating the blaze because of the topography of the city, which is surrounded by dozens of steep hills where most people live.<\/p>\n<p>Valparaiso is about 120 kilometres (75 miles) northwest of the capital, Santiago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTIAGO, Chile &#8211; A large forest fire raging in the Chilean port city of Valparaiso destroyed at least 500 homes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[1093,620,2110,455],"class_list":["post-6873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-chile","tag-fire","tag-forest","tag-lt","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873","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=6873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}