{"id":69573,"date":"2017-07-19T10:41:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T08:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=69573"},"modified":"2017-07-20T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T10:00:53","slug":"house-engulfed-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/07\/19\/house-engulfed-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"House engulfed by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large part of the home, consisting of two bedrooms at the back, will have to be rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>Firemen quickly contained the fire to the two bedrooms at the back, preventing it from spreading to the rest of the house.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-69575\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/07\/fire1-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/07\/fire1-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/07\/fire1-LL-ZN-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The owner of the house, introduced to<b>\u00a0www.mobserver.co.z<\/b>a as Mr Mnguni, watched helplessly while everyone jumped in to help remove furniture and personal belongings that could be salvaged from the fire.<\/p>\n<p>He couldn&#8217;t say where or how the fire started. Residents fled the house when they realized that the fire had become uncontrollable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-69576\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/07\/fire3-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/07\/fire3-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/07\/fire3-LL-ZN-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The caved in roof caused most damage to parts of the house, undamaged by the fire.<br \/>\nwith his insurers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Rose Quartz Street in Middelburg experienced a dramatic Saturday afternoon when a house was engulfed by fire and was literally destroyed in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":69574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tobie van den Bergh","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69573","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\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}