{"id":356806,"date":"2020-06-11T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T05:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=356806"},"modified":"2020-06-11T11:46:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T06:16:30","slug":"assam-gas-leak-and-fire-two-firefighters-dead-many-houses-damaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/assam-gas-leak-and-fire-two-firefighters-dead-many-houses-damaged\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam gas leak and fire: Two firefighters dead, many houses damaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after a blowout from a gas well in Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district caught fire, bodies of Oil India Limited (OIL) firefighters Durlov Gogoi (35) and Tikheswar Gohain (55) were recovered from a pond near the well site, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>The fire had by then been contained. \u201cPeripheral fire has been contained but fire at the well remains,\u201d said OIL spokesperson Tridiv Hazarika. \u201cCurrently, fire tenders are spraying water to contain the fire from spreading in surrounding areas,\u201d said an OIL statement Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal had directed Industries and Commerce Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary to reach Tinsukia to assess the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after a blowout from a gas well in Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district caught fire, bodies of Oil India Limited (OIL) firefighters Durlov Gogoi (35) and Tikheswar Gohain (55) were recovered from a pond near the well site, authorities said. The fire had by then been contained. \u201cPeripheral fire has been contained but fire at the well remains,\u201d said OIL spokesperson Tridiv Hazarika. \u201cCurrently, fire tenders are spraying water to contain the fire from spreading in surrounding areas,\u201d said an OIL statement Wednesday. On Tuesday, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal had directed Industries and Commerce Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary to reach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}