{"id":214014,"date":"2024-04-08T07:04:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=214014"},"modified":"2024-04-08T08:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T12:02:27","slug":"10th-victim-of-salcedo-carnival-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/04\/08\/10th-victim-of-salcedo-carnival-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"10th victim of Salcedo Carnival fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Edwin-de-Jesus-Arias-Diario-Libre-1024x639.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-214084\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Edwin-de-Jesus-Arias-Diario-Libre-1024x639.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Edwin-de-Jesus-Arias-Diario-Libre-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Edwin-de-Jesus-Arias-Diario-Libre-768x479.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Edwin-de-Jesus-Arias-Diario-Libre-1536x959.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Edwin-de-Jesus-Arias-Diario-Libre.png 1942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>16-year old Edwin de Jesus Arias became the 10th victim of the Salcedo Carnival fireworks tragedy. An adult and eight other children have died due to the imprudent handling of fireworks by one of the carnival troupe members for the Salcedo Carnival on Sunday, 10 March 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Salcedo Carnival was called off and the National Carnival Parade was also suspended in solidarity with the victims. The people of Salcedo learned the hard way why Dominican law establishes that only professional outfits can handle fireworks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diario Libre reports that Arias was an A student in 11th grade in the Colegio Salome Ure\u00f1a of Salcedo. He was cared for at the burn unit at the Robert Reid Cabral Children\u2019s Hospital in Santo Domingo for 26 days. He suffered third-degree burns over 65% of his body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the survivors of the fireworks fires, one child was airlifted to the Boston Shriner&#8217;s Hospital burn unit, with chances of surviving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2024\/04\/05\/carnaval-de-salcedo-decima-victima-era-un-estudiante-sobresaliente\/2664920\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/forums\/threads\/15-year-old-flown-to-boston-for-burn-treatment.410173\/\">DR1 News <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 April 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16-year old Edwin de Jesus Arias became the 10th victim of the Salcedo Carnival fireworks tragedy. An adult and eight other children have died due to the imprudent handling of fireworks by one of the carnival troupe members for the Salcedo Carnival on Sunday, 10 March 2024. The Salcedo Carnival was called off and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/04\/08\/10th-victim-of-salcedo-carnival-fire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214110,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214014\/revisions\/214110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}