{"id":118139,"date":"2026-05-17T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/118139\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:08:08","slug":"fire-spreads-across-wheat-fields-in-iraqs-saladin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/118139\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire spreads across wheat fields in Iraq\u2019s Saladin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-17T16:30:14+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News-<br \/>\nSaladin<\/p>\n<p>A large fire broke<br \/>\nout on Sunday in a wheat field in Al-Naama of Saladin province, northern Iraq,<br \/>\nburning wide agricultural areas without causing casualties, a Civil Defense<br \/>\nsource told Shafaq News.<\/p>\n<p>The fire erupted in<br \/>\na wheat farm located about 45 kilometers east of Tikrit, spreading across an<br \/>\narea estimated between five and 15 dunams (0.5 and 1.5 hectares).<\/p>\n<p>Civil Defense teams<br \/>\nmanaged to contain the blaze, and preliminary investigations suggest the fire<br \/>\nmay have been caused by an electrical short circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week,<br \/>\na <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/society\/Fire-guts-Iraq-s-Diyala-power-grid-after-suspected-overload\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">blaze<\/a> struck Diyala\u2019s main 400-kV power station in eastern Iraq, two months<br \/>\nafter repairs were completed following a previous fire.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a reported<br \/>\n74% nationwide decline in fire incidents in 2025 due to stricter safety<br \/>\nmeasures, recent fires across residential, industrial, and strategic sites have<br \/>\ncontinued to cause casualties and significant material damage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Security\/Iraq-s-fire-risk-landscape-at-the-start-of-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Iraq\u2019s fire risk landscape at the start of 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-17T16:30:14+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Saladin A large fire broke out on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,3779,40549,94,13495,40550],"class_list":["post-118139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-breaking","tag-fire","tag-fire-spreads-across-wheat-fields-in-iraqs-saladin","tag-iraq","tag-saladin","tag-wheat-fields"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116591021446271876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}