{"id":11663,"date":"2024-12-20T11:28:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T07:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/massive-fire-kills-9-at-under-construction-building-in-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T11:28:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T07:58:42","slug":"massive-fire-kills-9-at-under-construction-building-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/massive-fire-kills-9-at-under-construction-building-in-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive fire kills 9 at under-construction building in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5296070.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Video posted on social media showed a wall of dark gray smoke and orange flames billowing out of one end of the five-story building in the city of Taichung, AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire was undetermined but the Taichung government said it spread rapidly because of a large quantity of foam panels on site.<\/p>\n<p>One person died after jumping from the third floor and the other victims were found by firefighters in a search that extended into the evening, Taiwanese media said. Nineteen people were rescued.<\/p>\n<p>The building was being constructed for the PX Mart supermarket chain.<\/p>\n<p>MA\/PR<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/225720\/Massive-fire-kills-9-at-under-construction-building-in-Taiwan\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video posted on social media showed a wall of dark gray smoke and orange flames billowing out of one end of the five-story building in the city of Taichung, AP reported. The cause of the fire was undetermined but the Taichung government said it spread rapidly because of a large quantity of foam panels on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}