{"id":24289,"date":"2020-09-10T15:15:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T11:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=24289"},"modified":"2020-09-10T15:17:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T11:17:53","slug":"fire-erupts-in-beirut-port-over-a-month-after-deadly-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/09\/10\/fire-erupts-in-beirut-port-over-a-month-after-deadly-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire erupts in Beirut port over a month after deadly explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A store of oil and tires at Beirut port caught fire on Thursday, a military source said, a little more than a month after a massive blast devastated the port and a surrounding residential area of the Lebanese capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire erupted in the duty free zone of the port, sending a huge column of smoke above the city. The military source said the cause of the blaze was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Television footage showed firefighters trying to douse the blaze at the port, where warehouses and concrete grain silos were shattered by the Aug. 4 blast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 190 people were killed in last month\u2019s explosion and a swathe of Beirut near the port was ruined. The blast was caused by a huge store of ammonium nitrate that had been kept at the port in poor condition for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A store of oil and tires at Beirut port caught fire on Thursday, a military source said, a little more than a month after a massive blast devastated the port and a surrounding residential area of the Lebanese capital. The fire erupted in the duty free zone of the port, sending a huge column of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24292,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24289\/revisions\/24292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}