{"id":7438,"date":"2013-01-10T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/bushfire-nearly-destroys-kings-canyon-resort\/"},"modified":"2013-01-10T04:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T04:39:00","slug":"bushfire-nearly-destroys-kings-canyon-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/01\/bushfire-nearly-destroys-kings-canyon-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Bushfire nearly destroys Kings Canyon Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<br \/>   Kings Canyon Resort in Central Australia has narrowly escaped being destroyed by a major bushfire on Tuesday afternoon (Jan 8).<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spicenews.com.au\/image\/kingscanyonresort%2090.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>King&#8217;s Canyon Resort<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong><\/strong><br \/>   While the focus was firmly been on the hundreds of fires destroying  hectares of land in New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria earlier this  week, the same day a one-kilometre wide fire in the Watarrka National  Park forced the evacuation of 110 staff and guests at Kings Canyon  Resort \u2013 located around 300 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs \u2013 to  the nearby Mereenie Oil Fields.<\/p>\n<p>   According to a report by the ABC, flames were seen surrounding the  resort by aerial spotters as the fire approached and as a result, a  number of buildings are reportedly blackened but still standing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spicenews.com.au\/2013\/01\/10\/article\/Bushfire-nearly-destroys-Kings-Canyon-Resort\/BTRDADRWID\" target=\"_blank\">Read full story at Spice News <\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kings Canyon Resort in Central Australia has narrowly escaped being destroyed by a major bushfire on Tuesday afternoon (Jan 8). King&#8217;s Canyon Resort While the focus was firmly been on the hundreds of fires destroying hectares of land in New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria earlier this week, the same day a one-kilometre wide fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}