{"id":31906,"date":"2018-05-24T11:11:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T11:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=31906"},"modified":"2018-05-24T11:11:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T11:11:58","slug":"vaishno-devi-yatra-remains-suspended-due-to-forest-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/vaishno-devi-yatra-remains-suspended-due-to-forest-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaishno Devi yatra remains suspended due to forest fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu,<br \/>\nThe annual pilgrimage to the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine remained suspended for a second consecutive day on Thursday following a forest fire, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Around 25,000 pilgrims were currently stranded at the Katra base camp for clearance to start the uphill trek to the shrine located in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Reasi district. However, helicopter services have resumed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A huge forest fire broke out yesterday in the Trikuta Hills,&#8221; a police official said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire department has deployed helicopters to douse the flames. Trenches were also dug to prevent the fire from spreading out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The blaze has been contained to a large extent. For the safety of the pilgrims, the passage to the shrine will only be permitted after the blaze is completely put out,&#8221; the official added.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu, The annual pilgrimage to the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine remained suspended for a second consecutive day on Thursday following a forest fire, police said. Around 25,000 pilgrims were currently stranded at the Katra base camp for clearance to start the uphill trek to the shrine located in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Reasi district. However, helicopter [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-jammu-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31908,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31906\/revisions\/31908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}