{"id":39816,"date":"2021-12-15T17:10:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T08:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/15\/hong-kong-world-trade-center-fire-reports-dozens-trapped-inside-shopping-centre"},"modified":"2021-12-15T19:23:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T10:23:25","slug":"hong-kong-world-trade-centre-fire-traps-150-on-shopping-centre-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39816","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds rescued from roof as fire hits Hong Kong shopping centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen taken to hospital after blaze that reportedly broke out in an electrical switch room<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters have rescued 350 people who were trapped on the roof of a shopping centre and office complex in Hong Kong after a fire broke out in one of the city\u2019s busiest shopping districts.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke started billowing from the World Trade Centre in the Causeway Bay district at about noon on Wednesday. Firefighters battling the blaze with two water jets extinguished it at about 4.30pm.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/15\/hong-kong-world-trade-center-fire-reports-dozens-trapped-inside-shopping-centre\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen taken to hospital after blaze that reportedly broke out in an electrical switch roomFirefighters have rescued 350 people who were trapped on the roof of a shopping centre and office complex in Hong Kong after a fire broke out in one of the cit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2735,"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":[41,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39816","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\/2735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39832,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39816\/revisions\/39832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}