{"id":568721,"date":"2026-08-17T18:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=568721"},"modified":"2026-08-17T19:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:42:19","slug":"9-year-old-boy-finds-matches-and-burns-straw-worth-12-000-rubles-in-smarhon-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/9-year-old-boy-finds-matches-and-burns-straw-worth-12-000-rubles-in-smarhon-district","title":{"rendered":"9-Year-Old Boy Finds Matches and Burns Straw Worth 12,000 Rubles in Smarhon District"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A 9-year-old boy in Smarhon District burned 450 tonnes of straw. His parents will be held responsible.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 15, the Emergencies Ministry received a report of straw catching fire in a field near the village of Shemetava. A total of 450 tonnes of straw belonging to a local agricultural enterprise burned. The damage amounted to more than 12,000 rubles, the Investigative Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/skgovby\/16195\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was established that the fire was started by a 9-year-old schoolboy. During a walk, he found matches, went to the field and set fire to a haystack. The fire quickly spread. The child tried to put out the fire himself and then ran away. He did not tell any adults about what had happened.<\/p>\n<p>The boy\u2019s parents will be responsible for compensating the material damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 9-year-old boy in Smarhon District burned 450 tonnes of straw. His parents will be held responsible. On Aug. 15, the Emergencies Ministry received a report of straw catching fire in a field near the village of Shemetava. A total of 450 tonnes of straw belonging to a local agricultural enterprise burned. The damage amounted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":568720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a8339ef23b5e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"9-Year-Old Boy Finds Matches and Burns Straw Worth 12,000 Rubles in Smarhon District"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}