{"id":136672,"date":"2025-08-11T10:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/136672\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:16:11","slug":"st-johns-regional-respond-to-more-illegal-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/136672\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John\u2019s Regional Respond to More Illegal Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Fire-bonfire-campfire.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"St. John's Regional Respond to More Illegal Fires\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(File photo)<\/p>\n<p>Despite stiffened penalties, the St. John\u2019s Regional Fire Department continued to respond to illegal bonfires over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Crews responded to three illegal fires yesterday, all of which have been reported to the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, government increased the penalties for starting a fire during the province-wide ban with fines starting at $50,000 and going as high as $150,000. The penalty also could include between six months and one year in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Violators can also be on the hook for the cost of dousing the fires in addition to the fines.<\/p>\n<p>A frustrated Premier John Hogan continues to stress the importance of abiding by the rules.<\/p>\n<p>He says volunteers have been working around the clock to keep the province safe, and residents need to adhere to the ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (File photo) Despite stiffened penalties, the St. John\u2019s Regional Fire Department continued to respond to illegal bonfires&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-136672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115009617072066204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}