An Italian tourist has died and several others require medical treatment following a massive blaze that destroyed a luxury resort in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n
Harrowing footage shows holiday-makers fleeing to the beach as fire engulfs Wyndham\u2019s Viva Dominicus Beach resort in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n
The fire on Friday local time ripped through a large swath of the resort, with the thatched roofs of multiple structures catching alight and sending black plumes of smoke into the sky.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear what caused the fire, which forced 1700 tourists to flee, with local officials yet to confirm the extent of the damage.<\/p>\n
Those staying at the resort had to be evacuated to other hotels and nearby housing.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough fire trucks are already on the scene, the magnitude of the blaze exceeds the available equipment and greater support is required with higher-impact units to fully extinguish it,\u201d one witness wrote on social media.<\/p>\n
Footage showed stunned guests sheltering on the beach, with one man dressed in a Hawaiian shirt filming the blaze with his phone. <\/p>\n
The resort is reportedly a popular holiday destination for American tourists. <\/p>\n
\u201cNestled along Bayahibe-La Romana\u2019s pristine white sands, this resort offers a perfect blend of accessibility and intimacy,\u201d the resort\u2019s website said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Italian tourist has died and several others require medical treatment following a massive blaze that destroyed a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-748824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}