{"id":3886,"date":"2021-04-24T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2021-04-24T15:57:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T18:57:55","slug":"incendio-na-cidade-do-cabo-imagens-de-satelite-mostram-a-destruicao-causada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2021\/04\/24\/incendio-na-cidade-do-cabo-imagens-de-satelite-mostram-a-destruicao-causada\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town fire: Satellite images show the destruction caused by the blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a><img class=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cape-fire-6-jacques-unshakable-west.jpg\" src= https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cape-fire-6-jacques-unshakable-west.jpg alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: The South African <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nSatellite images from the European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) Sentinel-2 Earth observation mission add a new perspective to the widespread destruction caused by the Cape Town fire, which broke out on Sunday, 18 April and burned for three days. An area of approximately 622 hectares (6.22 square kilometres), which is represented by an ugly fire scar in the images, was destroyed by the Cape Town fire. The Cape Town fire was reportedly started by a vagrant near Table Mountain National Park and spread quickly. There was significant damage to buildings at the upper campus of the University of Cape Town (UCT) \u2014 where students were evacuated \u2014 and invaluable works housed in the special collections library were lost.\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesouthafrican.com\/news\/cape-town-fire-satellite-images-hectares-south-african-space-agency-24-april-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: The South African Satellite images from the European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) Sentinel-2 Earth observation mission add a new perspective to the widespread destruction caused by the Cape Town fire, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2021\/04\/24\/incendio-na-cidade-do-cabo-imagens-de-satelite-mostram-a-destruicao-causada\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cape Town fire: Satellite images show the destruction caused by the blaze<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[43,11,294],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.10.7","language":"en","enabled_languages":["br","en"],"languages":{"br":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3889,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions\/3889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}