{"id":231340,"date":"2026-08-16T13:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/europe-continues-to-battle-wildfires-as-belgium-sees-biggest-blaze-in-recorded-history\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T13:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:49:02","slug":"europe-continues-to-battle-wildfires-as-belgium-sees-biggest-blaze-in-recorded-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/europe-continues-to-battle-wildfires-as-belgium-sees-biggest-blaze-in-recorded-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe continues to battle wildfires as Belgium sees biggest blaze in recorded history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fire in eastern Belgium doubled in size over 24 hours by Sunday morning. The EU Civil Protection Mechanism was activated on Saturday, with three helicopters and two water-bombing aircraft arriving from Sweden, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/08\/16\/europe-continues-to-battle-wildfires-as-belgium-sees-biggest-blaze-in-recorded-history\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fire in eastern Belgium doubled in size over 24 hours by Sunday morning. The EU Civil Protection Mechanism was activated on Saturday, with three helicopters and two water-bombing aircraft arriving from Sweden, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":231341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}