{"id":46461,"date":"2022-07-15T23:38:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/15\/thousands-evacuated-as-heat-causes-wildfires-in-europe-and-north-africa"},"modified":"2022-07-15T23:38:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:38:47","slug":"thousands-evacuated-as-heat-causes-wildfires-in-europe-and-north-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46461","title":{"rendered":"Thousands evacuated as heat causes wildfires in Europe and north Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal declares \u2018state of contingency\u2019 as France, Spain and Morocco also battle fires, while record heat hits China <\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people in Portugal, Spain, France and Morocco have been evacuated from their homes as firefighters tackle wildfires caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/12\/dangerous-heatwaves-engulf-parts-china-us-europe\">this week\u2019s heatwave<\/a>, which has brought extreme temperatures of more than 45C (113F) to parts of Europe and north Africa.<\/p>\n<p>One person has died and at least 135 people have suffered mainly minor injuries since wildfires began in <strong>Portugal<\/strong> last week. A \u201cstate of contingency\u201d has been in effect since Sunday, and about 800 people have been evacuated from their homes, according to the country\u2019s Civil Protection Authority.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/15\/thousands-evacuated-as-heat-causes-wildfires-in-europe-and-north-africa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal declares \u2018state of contingency\u2019 as France, Spain and Morocco also battle fires, while record heat hits China Thousands of people in Portugal, Spain, France and Morocco have been evacuated from their homes as firefighters tackle wildfires cause&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3181,"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":[41,50,2331,221,455,526,1226,723,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-climate-crisis","category-europe","category-extreme-weather","category-france","category-portugal","category-wildfires","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\/46461","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\/3181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46462,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46461\/revisions\/46462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}