{"id":14902,"date":"2026-03-17T18:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=14902"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:59:10","slug":"hotel-damaged-in-pahalgam-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/hotel-damaged-in-pahalgam-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel damaged in Pahalgam fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Man killed by reversing fire truck<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Srinagar, Mar 17:\u00a0<\/strong>A hotel and a vehicle were damaged after a massive fire broke out in the Pahalgam area of south Kashmir\u2019s Anantnag district late Monday evening, officials said, adding that a man also died after being hit by a reversing fire truck during firefighting operations.<\/p>\n<p>An official said that the fire engulfed Asal Resort late evening, following which fire trucks were rushed to the spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring firefighting operations, multiple LPG cylinder explosions occurred, hampering efforts. The fire was put off after strenuous efforts. Three structures of the hotel and a vehicle suffered damaged in the incident. The cause of fire is being ascertained,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that a man also died after being hit by a reversing fire tender during the firefighting operations. He has been identified as Manjeet Singh (31) son of Wakeel Singh of Hutmara Mattan. The deceased was working as a gatekeeper at Vale Lodge in the vicinity<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man killed by reversing fire truck Srinagar, Mar 17:\u00a0A hotel and a vehicle were damaged after a massive fire broke out in the Pahalgam area of south Kashmir\u2019s Anantnag district late Monday evening, officials said, adding that a man also died after being hit by a reversing fire truck during firefighting operations. An official said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14904,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902\/revisions\/14904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}