{"id":40040,"date":"2021-08-11T23:10:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T23:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40040"},"modified":"2021-08-11T23:10:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T23:10:18","slug":"the-shopkeeper-saving-his-island-from-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40040","title":{"rendered":"The shopkeeper saving his island from wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Wildfires have forced hundreds of people to leave the Greek island of Evia. The fires have destroyed houses and brought down power lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Residents have become volunteer firefighters in an attempt to end the wildfires that are tearing across the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Spyros, a local supermarket worker, spoke to the BBC about how he and others stepped up to tackle the blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Filming and production by Ayman Oghanna, local producer Nikos Papanikolaou.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video edited my Megan Fisher and Ameer Ahmed.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-58177493\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfires have forced hundreds of people to leave the Greek island of Evia. The fires have destroyed houses and brought down power lines. Residents have become volunteer firefighters in an attempt to end the wildfires that are tearing across the island. Spyros, a local supermarket worker, spoke to the BBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/119899573_p09rzsgt.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}