{"id":417859,"date":"2021-06-01T08:39:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T03:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417859"},"modified":"2021-06-01T09:16:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T03:46:04","slug":"iaf-joins-fire-fighting-operation-as-forest-blaze-rages-in-j-ks-udhampur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-joins-fire-fighting-operation-as-forest-blaze-rages-in-j-ks-udhampur\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF joins fire fighting operation as forest blaze rages in J-K&#8217;s Udhampur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Monday joined a fire fighting operation to control a massive forest fire in Ghordi block in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire in Daya Dhar forest started on Sunday and engulfed a vast area, damaging hundreds of trees, the officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The forest protection force, along with fire department and emergency services personnel, police and civilian volunteers from nearby villages are making efforts to put off the blaze in the forest, home to various species of the wild animals and birds.<\/p>\n<p>The IAF deployed its choppers with a bucket carrying thousands of litres of water early Monday morning to help douse the fire, responding to the call of Udhampur Deputy Commissioner Indu Kanwal Chib.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Monday joined a fire fighting operation to control a massive forest fire in Ghordi block in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The fire in Daya Dhar forest started on Sunday and engulfed a vast area, damaging hundreds of trees, the officials said. The forest protection force, along with fire department and emergency services personnel, police and civilian volunteers from nearby villages are making efforts to put off the blaze in the forest, home to various species of the wild animals and birds. The IAF deployed its choppers with a bucket carrying [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417859","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=417859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}