{"id":20761,"date":"2026-06-25T19:13:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20761"},"modified":"2026-06-25T19:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:13:34","slug":"mom-of-two-killed-in-dominican-republic-hotel-fire-is-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20761","title":{"rendered":"Mom of two killed in Dominican Republic hotel fire is identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"96\" data-end=\"239\">Francesca Valentino, 45, was identified as the sole victim of a fire at the Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach Hotel in Bayahibe, Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"241\" data-end=\"451\">Authorities said she died from smoke inhalation after the blaze forced the evacuation of about 1,700 people. Officials believe flammable palm-roof structures and windy conditions helped the fire spread rapidly.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"453\" data-end=\"508\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Valentino is survived by her husband and two daughters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Francesca Valentino, 45, was identified as the sole victim of a fire at the Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach Hotel in Bayahibe, Dominican Republic. Authorities said <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20761\" title=\"Mom of two killed in Dominican Republic hotel fire is identified\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20763,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20761\/revisions\/20763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}