{"id":34835,"date":"2024-03-26T02:04:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T06:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=34835"},"modified":"2024-03-26T02:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T06:04:56","slug":"forest-fires-burn-in-nearly-half-of-mexicos-drought-stricken-states-fuelled-by-strong-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/forest-fires-burn-in-nearly-half-of-mexicos-drought-stricken-states-fuelled-by-strong-winds\/34835\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest fires burn in nearly half of Mexico\u2019s drought-stricken states, fuelled by strong winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forest fires were burning in nearly half of Mexico\u2019s drought-stricken states Monday fuelled by strong winds. The National Forestry Commission reported 58 active fires in 15 states, including in protected nature reserves in Morelos, Veracruz and Mexico states. A preliminary estimate of the affected area reached more than 3,500 acres (1,421 hectares), the commission wrote on the social platform X.\u00a0 Authorities had reported no injuries, but at least some homes were burned at a wildfire in Nogales, Veracruz Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A fire burned across mountain farms, killing livestock and charring homes. At least five families were moved to a shelter. Firefighters battled with a water tanker while residents slapped at flames in their fields with branches. Alondra Ch\u00e1vez a Nogales resident was among those fighting the flames. \u201cThe wind is beating us and we do what we can,\u201d Ch\u00e1vez said. Catalina Villafuerte, a resident of Aserradero Maltrata, a nearby community battling another fire, said \u201cEverything is destroyed, the machines to work, beds, mattresses, everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forest fires were burning in nearly half of Mexico\u2019s drought-stricken states Monday fuelled by strong winds. The National Forestry Commission\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":34836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[2394,7476,587],"class_list":["post-34835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-drought","tag-forest-fires","tag-mexico"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}