{"id":52181,"date":"2025-11-19T07:54:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=52181"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:54:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:54:34","slug":"fire-burning-in-southwestern-japan-damages-170-homes-forces-evacuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=52181","title":{"rendered":"Fire burning in southwestern Japan damages 170 homes, forces evacuations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TOKYO &#8212;\u00a0Firefighters were battling an out-of-control fire Wednesday morning that has burned through a neighborhood in southwestern Japan and forced more than 170 people to evacuate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 170 homes have been damaged and a man in his 70s was unaccounted for, Japan&#8217;s Fire and Disaster Management Agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fire started during strong winds Tuesday evening near a fishing port in the city of Oita and spread to a forest. Oita is on the southern island of Kyushu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One resident told Kyodo News Agency she quickly fled without many of her belongings because the fire \u201cspread in the blink of an eye.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC: TOKYO &#8212;\u00a0Firefighters were battling an out-of-control fire Wednesday morning that has burned through a neighborhood in southwestern Japan and forced more than 170 people to evacuate. At least 170 homes have been damaged and a man in his 70s was unaccounted for, Japan&#8217;s Fire and Disaster Management Agency said. The fire started during strong winds Tuesday evening near a fishing port in the city of Oita and spread to a forest. Oita is on the southern island of Kyushu. One resident told Kyodo News Agency she quickly fled without many of her belongings because the fire \u201cspread in the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52183,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52181\/revisions\/52183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}