{"id":242808,"date":"2026-02-26T17:32:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/?p=242808"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:50:26","slug":"flames-engulf-rabaul-district-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/flames-engulf-rabaul-district-office\/","title":{"rendered":"FLAMES ENGULF RABAUL DISTRICT OFFICE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Wasita Royal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A devastating fire has completely engulfed the Rabaul District Office building around 4pm today.<br>The event took the residents in shock on a public holiday meant to be a day of solemn remembrance for Papua New Guinea&#8217;s founding father, the late Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare.<br>The cause of the blaze, which tore through the administrative hub, is yet to be known.<br>The Rabaul district office is a critical government center, housing key administrative departments that serve the local populace. The extent of the damage to vital records, equipment, and infrastructure will be assessed.<br>Authorities are expected to launch a full investigation into the cause of the fire once it has been extinguished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"242810\" src=\"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/rabaul-fire-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-242810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/rabaul-fire-2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/rabaul-fire-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/rabaul-fire-2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/rabaul-fire-2-390x220.png 390w, https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/rabaul-fire-2.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rabaul district office go up in fames. &#8211; Picture supplied.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Wasita Royal A devastating fire has completely engulfed the Rabaul District Office building around 4pm today.The event took the residents in shock on a public holiday meant to be a day of solemn remembrance for Papua New Guinea&#8217;s founding father, the late Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare.The cause of the blaze, which tore through &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":242809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242813,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242808\/revisions\/242813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}