{"id":274497,"date":"2024-08-22T13:06:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T05:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=274497"},"modified":"2024-08-22T13:06:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T05:06:57","slug":"croatia-reports-significant-increase-in-wildfires-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=274497","title":{"rendered":"Croatia reports significant increase in wildfires this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/files.wri.org\/d8\/s3fs-public\/styles\/500x300\/s3\/2022-08\/forest_fire_borneo.jpg?VersionId=zZ0JsNJpd.xnlj5GUMrK_WTAvVhPIIrm&amp;h=dbfb23f9&amp;itok=84pQ_hgM\" alt=\"Forest fire in Borneo, Indonesia\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ZAGREB, Aug 22 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; From the beginning of the year until Aug 19, a total of 4,300 wildfires were recorded in Croatia, an increase of 26 percent compared with last year, the Croatian Firefighting Association (HVZ) said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August so far, 981 fires, including 681 wildfires, were registered, with a total burnt area of 7,710 hectares, the HVZ said, adding that as a result, 557 fire brigade units, 1,011 vehicles and 2,837 firefighters were deployed to extinguish the fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compared with last year, there has been an increase of fires in most categories this year, with the exception of building fires, which decreased by 8 percent compared with last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the HVZ, 11 people died in the fires so far this year, a decrease of 26 percent compared with the year before, while another 98 people were injured, including 20 firefighters, a decrease of 3 percent year on year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lingering heatwave sweeping Croatia, as well as acts of arson, is believed to be the main culprit for the sharp increase of wildfires in the country this year.\u00a0 &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZAGREB, Aug 22 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; From the beginning of the year until Aug 19, a total of 4,300 wildfires were recorded in Croatia, an increase of 26 percent compared with last year, the Croatian Firefighting Association (HVZ) said in a statement. In August so far, 981 fires, including 681 wildfires, were registered, with a total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":274501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274502,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274497\/revisions\/274502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}