{"id":7138,"date":"2023-08-11T04:48:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2023-08-11T04:48:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T16:48:08","slug":"at-least-36-people-dead-in-fires-burning-through-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7138","title":{"rendered":"At least 36 people dead in fires burning through Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">At least 36 people have died in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/hawaii-wildfire-whats-driving-mauis-devastating-fires-and-how-climate-change-is-fueling-those-conditions\/U4RFC7AT5NF7TCBEJND6QIOZ54\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lahaina fire<\/a>\u00a0in Hawaii, Maui County wrote in a statement posted to the county website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Wildfires, whipped by strong winds from Hurricane Dora passing far to the south, took the island of Maui by surprise, leaving behind burned-out cars on once busy streets and smoking piles of rubble where historical buildings had stood. Flames roared throughout the night, forcing adults and children to dive into the ocean for safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Officials said earlier that 271 structures were damaged or destroyed and dozens of people injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Wednesday (local time), crews were continuing to battle blazes in several places on the island. Authorities urged visitors to stay away.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 36 people have died in the\u00a0Lahaina fire\u00a0in Hawaii, Maui County wrote in a statement posted to the county website. Wildfires, whipped by strong winds from Hurricane Dora passing far to the south, took the island of Maui by surprise, leaving behind burned-out cars on once busy streets and smoking piles of rubble where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7140,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions\/7140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}