{"id":12222,"date":"2014-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/12222\/fire-breaks-out-in-flat\/"},"modified":"2014-06-12T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T09:23:31","slug":"fire-breaks-out-in-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/06\/10\/fire-breaks-out-in-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Fire breaks out in flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His neighbours alarmed him about the fire at approximately 09:30. They broke a window and tried to stop the blaze using water buckets and a hosepipe while waiting for fire extinguishers.<\/p>\n<p>See Video here:<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/XaMFxdC3jMw' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;When I arrived, I found my bathroom burnt down. It seems that a burning object was thrown through the window. Even the electrical appliances in the living area caught the fire,&#8221; claimed Mr Masombuka.<\/p>\n<p>His washing machine, TV set, DVD player, clothing, bath tub and toilet were ruined. People gathered around the scene and helped him clean up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; If it wasn&#8217;t for my neighbour&#8217;s help, I would have found the whole house in ashes,&#8221; he thankfully said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire mysteriously started on Thursday at flat number 128 Reabota in Mhluzi. The owner, Bongani Masombuka, left his bathroom window open before leaving for work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":12223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Bridget Mahlangu","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}