{"id":309272,"date":"2019-02-13T04:45:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T04:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309272"},"modified":"2019-02-13T04:55:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T04:55:16","slug":"delhi-massive-fire-breaks-out-at-slum-in-paschim-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-massive-fire-breaks-out-at-slum-in-paschim-puri\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi: Massive fire breaks out at slum in Paschim Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301893 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fire-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire-591x420.jpg 591w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A massive fire broke out in Delhi\u2019s\u00a0Paschim\u00a0Puri area on early Wednesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 200 shanties were believed to be gutted in this fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 25 fire tenders were immediately rushed to the spot to douse the flames. The fire is under control now. The cooling operations are underway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the fire department was alerted at around 1:15 am.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The reason behind the fire is believed to be a short circuit. Hundreds of people living in these shanties were affected by this fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A woman was injured in the blaze and shifted to the hospital for further treatment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">No casualties have been reported so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More details are awaited.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive fire broke out in Delhi\u2019s\u00a0Paschim\u00a0Puri area on early Wednesday.\u00a0 At least 200 shanties were believed to be gutted in this fire. Over 25 fire tenders were immediately rushed to the spot to douse the flames. The fire is under control now. The cooling operations are underway. According to the reports, the fire department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429,10840],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309273,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309272\/revisions\/309273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}