{"id":159313,"date":"2026-09-12T04:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T08:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fire-at-las-terrenas-landfill-creates-environmental-crisis-in-samana\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T04:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T08:55:51","slug":"fire-at-las-terrenas-landfill-creates-environmental-crisis-in-samana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/fire-at-las-terrenas-landfill-creates-environmental-crisis-in-samana\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Las Terrenas landfill creates environmental crisis in Saman\u00e1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Environmental crisis in Las Terrenas: Fire at the municipal landfill causes concern<\/h2>\n\n<p>The municipality of Las Terrenas, in the province of Saman\u00e1, is once again facing an environmental crisis after a fire was reported at the local landfill. The incident caused a dense column of smoke that spread rapidly through the surroundings, affecting air quality and visibility in the nearby areas.<\/p>\n\n<p>Faced with the emergency, units from the Fire Department moved to the scene to carry out extinction and flame control efforts. Despite the efforts deployed to extinguish the fire, this episode has reignited the debate over waste management in the district.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">They demand definitive solutions in the face of recurrence<\/h3>\n\n<p>The situation has generated unrest among residents and visitors, who point out that these types of incidents have become recurrent. The community demands a deeper intervention that goes beyond simple emergency response. The key points demanded by the citizenry include:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Significant improvements in the maintenance and conditioning of landfill facilities.<\/li><li>Implementation of more efficient waste management protocols.<\/li><li>Preventive actions by the mayor&#8217;s office to prevent the reactivation of fires.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Citizens expect that, beyond addressing fires when they occur, the City Council will implement preventive actions to prevent these episodes from continuing to repeat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>Mayor Eduardo Esteban is under pressure to adopt permanent measures to ensure healthy environmental conditions. The health of the inhabitants, especially those residing in the communities closest to the landfill, remains the primary concern regarding the air pollution caused by these fires.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental crisis in Las Terrenas: Fire at the municipal landfill causes concern The municipality of Las Terrenas, in the province of Saman\u00e1, is once again facing an environmental crisis after a fire was reported at the local landfill. The incident caused a dense column of smoke that spread rapidly through the surroundings, affecting air quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[9639,13155,15298,8462],"class_list":{"0":"post-159313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-fire","9":"tag-landfill","10":"tag-las-terrenas","11":"tag-samana"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}