{"id":176418,"date":"2023-11-21T09:25:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/flights-cancelled-residents-to-evacuate-as-papua-new-guinea-volcano-erupts"},"modified":"2023-11-21T09:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T15:25:12","slug":"flights-cancelled-residents-to-evacuate-as-papua-new-guinea-volcano-erupts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/flights-cancelled-residents-to-evacuate-as-papua-new-guinea-volcano-erupts","title":{"rendered":"Flights cancelled, residents to evacuate as Papua New Guinea volcano erupts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flights-cancelled-residents-to-evacuate-as-papua-new-guinea-volcano-erupts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY, Nov 21 (Reuters) \u2014 Some residents of a remote Papua New Guinea island were preparing on Tuesday to evacuate from the vicinity of an erupting volcano that shot a cloud of ash into the sky forcing the cancellation of some flights.<\/p>\n<p>Teams had been sent to the Mount Ulawun area on New Britain island to coordinate an evacuation after it began erupting on Monday, state broadcaster NBC PNG reported senior disaster management official Clement Bailey as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Flights from the island\u2019s Hoskins airport had been cancelled, the broadcaster said, adding that the volcano was still erupting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Nov 21 (Reuters) \u2014 Some residents of a remote Papua New Guinea island were preparing on Tuesday to evacuate from the vicinity of an erupting volcano that shot a cloud of ash into the sky forcing the cancellation of some flights. Teams had been sent to the Mount Ulawun area on New Britain island [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}