{"id":404225,"date":"2026-07-19T08:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/404225\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T08:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:22:24","slug":"massive-norway-fire-destroys-more-than-100-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/404225\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Norway fire destroys more than 100 homes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DRAMMEN, Norway\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The largest residential fire in modern Norwegian history destroyed more than 100 homes and forced hundreds of people to evacuate, authorities said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The fire started in a townhouse in the southern city of Drammen, about 20 miles southwest of Oslo, around 3:30 p.m. Friday, police said. It spread through the area and into nearby forests. Firefighters on Saturday morning continued their efforts to bring the blaze under control.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection said Saturday that it was the largest fire of its kind in modern times.<\/p>\n<p>NRK, Norway\u2019s public broadcaster, said hundreds of people went to an evacuation center.<\/p>\n<p>No residents have been reported missing, police said. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DRAMMEN, Norway\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The largest residential fire in modern Norwegian history destroyed more than 100 homes and forced hundreds of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7213,162159,19222,162162,4330,1073,4915,48,52,51,80757,47,50,49,125775,30498,162161,162160,592,236,595],"class_list":["post-404225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-blaze","tag-civil-protection","tag-control","tag-drammen","tag-firefighter","tag-home","tag-hundred","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-large-fire","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-modern-time","tag-norway","tag-norwegian-directorate","tag-nrk","tag-people","tag-police","tag-saturday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}