{"id":11987,"date":"2019-12-10T19:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T10:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/10\/new-zealand-volcano-helicopter-pilot-says-was-victims-last-hope"},"modified":"2019-12-10T22:18:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:18:54","slug":"new-zealand-volcano-helicopter-pilot-says-he-was-victims-last-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11987","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand helicopter pilot describes horror of volcano rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The burns were horrific \u2026 A lot of the people could not talk,\u2019 says Mark Law<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/new-zealand-eruption-dead-missing-white-island\">White Island volcano: police open inquiry as sixth person dies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A commercial helicopter pilot who led a team that rescued 12 victims from the White Island volcano eruption has told how he believed he was their last hope of survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found people dead, dying and alive but in various states of unconsciousness,\u201d said Mark Law, a tour company boss who flew to the volcano and spent an hour on the ground even as a pillar of ash towered above them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/10\/new-zealand-volcano-helicopter-pilot-says-was-victims-last-hope\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The burns were horrific \u2026 A lot of the people could not talk,\u2019 says Mark LawWhite Island volcano: police open inquiry as sixth person diesA commercial helicopter pilot who led a team that rescued 12 victims from the White Island volcano eruption has t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,157,56,899,989,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-new-zealand","category-volcanoes","category-white-island-volcano","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12008,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11987\/revisions\/12008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}