{"id":35969,"date":"2013-06-03T12:03:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T19:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=35969"},"modified":"2013-06-03T12:03:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T19:03:37","slug":"bbc-dehui-poultry-plant-fire-locked-exits-blocked-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/06\/03\/bbc-dehui-poultry-plant-fire-locked-exits-blocked-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC: Dehui poultry plant fire: Locked exits &#8216;blocked escape&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire at a poultry processing plant in China has killed at least 119 people, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out at a slaughterhouse in Dehui in Jilin province early on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Accounts speak of explosions prior to the fire, which caused panic and a crush of workers trying to escape. Most exits were said to be locked.<\/p>\n<p>A labour activist told the BBC it was the worst factory fire in living memory.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is now said to have been mostly put out and bodies are being recovered.<\/p>\n<p>President Xi Jinping, who is on a visit to the Americas, ordered every effort to go into the rescue operation and treatment of survivors, adding that the investigation into the cause of the accident would be vigorous.<\/p>\n<p>Sources including the provincial fire department suggest there may have been an ammonia leak which either caused the fire or made fighting the blaze more hazardous.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-22749938\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire at a poultry processing plant in China has killed at least 119 people, officials say. The fire broke out at a slaughterhouse in Dehui in Jilin province early on Monday. Accounts speak of explosions prior to the fire, which caused panic and a crush of workers trying to escape. Most exits were said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35970,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35969\/revisions\/35970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}