{"id":8653,"date":"2019-03-29T11:23:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T11:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/?p=8653"},"modified":"2019-03-29T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T11:24:10","slug":"dozens-evacuated-as-fire-strikes-french-alps-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/dozens-evacuated-as-fire-strikes-french-alps-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens Evacuated As Fire Strikes French Alps Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A fierce fire broke out at a hotel in the upscale French Alps ski resort of Megeve, forcing the evacuation of around 180 people though no injuries were reported, officials said Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blaze was discovered on the wooden roof of the chalet-style Four Seasons hotel at 10:00 pm (2100 GMT) on Thursday, and 70 firefighters worked throughout the night to bring the fire under control by Friday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials said the building\u2019s fire alarms did not go off immediately, but the estimated 60 guests and 120 staff at the site were outside the building even before firefighters arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evacuees are being housed elsewhere during the investigation into the cause of the blaze, which local newspaper Le Dauphine Libere said might have been started by a chimney fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The five-star hotel, whose restaurant holds two Michelin stars, belongs to the Rothschild family, which began developing Megeve in the 1920s to rival the luxurious St. Moritz in Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the second major fire to strike a French Alps ski resort this winter, after a suspected arson attack at a residence for seasonal workers in Courchevel in January left two people dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, sources close to that investigation said a man was arrested this week for questioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man, in his 30s, was seen by several witnesses in Courchevel when the fire occurred and was arrested on the France-Spain border by police investigating an unrelated case, according to a report by RTL radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(AFP) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fierce fire broke out at a hotel in the upscale French Alps ski resort&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[2344,2109,2346,2107,2343,2345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8656,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions\/8656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}