{"id":12110,"date":"2019-12-13T15:33:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T06:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/13\/white-island-volcano-eruption-how-the-bodies-were-recovered"},"modified":"2019-12-13T15:33:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T06:33:19","slug":"white-island-volcano-eruption-how-the-bodies-were-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12110","title":{"rendered":"White Island volcano eruption: how the bodies were recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers wearing protective clothing and breathing equipment endured heat stress and threat of another eruption in high-risk operation<\/p>\n<p>A team of six New Zealand soldiers wearing breathing apparatus and special fire-retardant suits battled heat stress as they recovered six of the victims of the Whakaari\/White Island volcano eruption, the military said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Force revealed that the painstaking operation consisted of three two-person teams deployed on the ash-strewn island at about 8am, backed up by medical staff on a police boat that also offered communications support. A helicopter hovered overhead, and HMNZS Wellington waited further offshore to receive the bodies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/13\/white-island-volcano-eruption-how-the-bodies-were-recovered\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers wearing protective clothing and breathing equipment endured heat stress and threat of another eruption in high-risk operationA team of six New Zealand soldiers wearing breathing apparatus and special fire-retardant suits battled heat stress as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"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":[41,56,989,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","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\/12110","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12111,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12110\/revisions\/12111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}