{"id":47597,"date":"2022-08-18T10:10:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T01:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/18\/huge-fireball-erupts-on-fuel-barge-in-south-west-bay-malekula-vanuatu"},"modified":"2022-08-18T10:10:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T01:10:50","slug":"huge-fireball-erupts-on-fuel-barge-in-vanuatu-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47597","title":{"rendered":"Huge fireball erupts on fuel barge in Vanuatu bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vessel, which burst into flames while delivering fuel in mangrove-rich South West Bay on Malekula Island, has been salvaged<\/p>\n<p>A fuel transport barge that burst into flames off a Vanuatu island is being towed to port, with salvage operators saying it did not spill the 100,000 litres of diesel on board into a pristine bay.<\/p>\n<p> The Western Star, owned by Silentworld Shipping, burst into a massive fireball early Wednesday as it was unloading fuel at South West Bay on the island of Malekula, Vanuatu\u2019s second largest island.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/18\/huge-fireball-erupts-on-fuel-barge-in-south-west-bay-malekula-vanuatu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vessel, which burst into flames while delivering fuel in mangrove-rich South West Bay on Malekula Island, has been salvagedA fuel transport barge that burst into flames off a Vanuatu island is being towed to port, with salvage operators saying it d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3266,"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":[41,874,282,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47597","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\/3266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47598,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47597\/revisions\/47598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}