{"id":44953,"date":"2019-10-04T15:35:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T07:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44953"},"modified":"2019-10-04T16:20:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T08:20:38","slug":"fire-fighting-aircraft-tackle-out-of-control-blaze-near-sydney-suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44953","title":{"rendered":"Fire-Fighting Aircraft Tackle Out Of Control Blaze Near Sydney Suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SYDNEY, Oct 4 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Water-bombing aircraft were brought in, to fight an out of control bush-fire in Sydney&#8217;s outer suburbs on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hot and windy conditions fanned the flames, which took hold in bush-land near the suburb of Penrith, roughly 50 kilometres from Sydney&#8217;s central business district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After initially downgrading the seriousness of the blaze, the authorities issued an emergency warning, at around 4 p.m. local time, as southerly winds shifted the flames towards houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A statement posted on Twitter by the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, advised residents to &#8220;shelter as the fire arrives,&#8221; and emergency text messages were sent out to those in the vicinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roughly 100 firefighters were on the scene to fight the blaze which reportedly came within 50 metres of properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Easing conditions in the afternoon, with some rain predicted, were expected to give fire crews the opportunity to bring the blaze back under control.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Oct 4 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Water-bombing aircraft were brought in, to fight an out of control bush-fire in Sydney&#8217;s outer suburbs on Friday afternoon. Hot and windy conditions fanned the flames, which took hold in bush-land near the suburb of Penrith, roughly 50 kilometres from Sydney&#8217;s central business district. After initially downgrading the seriousness of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":44963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,198,291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44953"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}