{"id":147458,"date":"2018-06-27T22:45:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T22:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/soldiers-and-raf-helicopter-sent-in-to-tackle-moorlands-fire\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T22:45:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T22:45:56","slug":"soldiers-and-raf-helicopter-sent-in-to-tackle-moorlands-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/soldiers-and-raf-helicopter-sent-in-to-tackle-moorlands-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers and RAF helicopter sent in to tackle moorlands fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06c7n91.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionTimelapse footage shows the spread of the fire near Saddleworth Moor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">About 100 soldiers and an RAF Chinook helicopter have been deployed to tackle a fire near Saddleworth Moor, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>Military help was requested on Wednesday to help battle the moorlands blaze which has raged for days.<\/p>\n<p>The fire covers 3.7miles (6km) of moorland above Stalybridge and prompted the evacuation of up to 100 homes.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters will work through the night to tackle the blaze, as it enters its fourth day. <\/p>\n<p>Fire chiefs had asked the military to help move high-volume pump equipment by air to help douse the flames. <\/p>\n<p>Announcing the military intervention, Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said: &quot;I pay tribute to our armed forces&#039; professionalism, dedication and sense of duty.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They are proving once again that Britain can always depend on our troops to protect us no matter the time, no matter the place, and no matter the problem.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  PA<figcaption>Image caption                                      Firefighters continued to battle the fire at daybreak on Wednesday                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media playback is unsupported on your deviceMedia captionTimelapse footage shows the spread of the fire near Saddleworth Moor About 100 soldiers and an RAF Chinook helicopter have been deployed to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147458","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\/147458","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=147458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}