{"id":147286,"date":"2018-06-27T14:45:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/saddleworth-moor-fire-army-called-in-to-tackle-blaze\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T14:45:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:45:48","slug":"saddleworth-moor-fire-army-called-in-to-tackle-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/saddleworth-moor-fire-army-called-in-to-tackle-blaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddleworth Moor fire: Army called in to tackle blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Moorland fire satellite image\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/8586\/production\/_102228143_b93410a6-ce5a-428c-bd12-8e0245075e96.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  University of Dundee<figcaption>Image caption                                      Satellite images give a sense of how far the smoke is spreading                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">The Army has been called in to help battle a huge moorlands fire which has been raging for three days.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze covers 3.7miles (6km) of Saddleworth Moor and prompted firefighters to evacuate about 50 homes.<\/p>\n<p>Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service confirmed it had asked for military assistance.<\/p>\n<p>One resident described seeing &quot;ash falling like rain&quot; and another said it &quot;looked like the apocalypse&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Chief Fire Officer Dave Keelan said: &quot;We have been liaising with a military advisor on the scene and following those discussions we have requested military assistance from the Ministry of Defence.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman said the fire service had approached them &quot;as a priority&quot; and the MoD was &quot;looking into what might be done.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The fire began on Sunday night, reignited on Monday during the hot weather and then spread throughout Tuesday, fanned by evening winds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright University of DundeeImage caption Satellite images give a sense of how far the smoke is spreading The Army has been called in to help battle a huge moorlands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}