{"id":31109,"date":"2013-08-30T17:46:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T13:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=31109"},"modified":"2013-08-30T17:46:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T13:46:46","slug":"portugal-asks-for-2-more-planes-to-fight-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=31109","title":{"rendered":"Portugal Asks for 2 More Planes to Fight Wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfires are scorching large areas of forest in Portugal and the country has asked other European nations to send two more water-dropping aircraft to help battle the blazes.<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Dias, spokesman for Portugal&#8217;s National Civil Protection Authority, said Friday that France and Spain have each sent three Canadair planes designed for dropping water on wildfires, but more are needed.<\/p>\n<p>Some 1,300 firefighters were fighting six major blazes in the north of Portugal amid continuing hot weather and high winds.<\/p>\n<p>The two biggest wildfires were in dense, hilly woodland near Viseu, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) north of Lisbon, the capital.<\/p>\n<p>More than 900 firefighters and 288 vehicles were deployed at those blazes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfires are scorching large areas of forest in Portugal and the country has asked other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}