{"id":15493,"date":"2014-05-15T02:26:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T02:26:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-05-15T02:26:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T02:26:45","slug":"several-severe-fires-rage-in-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/15\/several-severe-fires-rage-in-san-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Severe Fires Rage in San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>At least 9 separate fires rage as firefighters struggle to keep up<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>We were warned that due to the drought this was going to be a very bad fire year. However, just how bad is becoming painfully clear. Traditionally, we would be looking down the road a while from now before the most severe fire danger. However, there was no considerable rain this winter, and this early fire season shows it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>San Diego County authorities Wednesday declared a local emergency due to wildfires that destroyed more than 20 structures, including homes, in the northern part of the region. &#8230; Firefighters are battling wind-driven blazes in Carlsbad, Escondido, Oceanside, Bonsall and Camp Pendleton. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiego6.com\/news\/local\/San-Diego-County-authorities-declare-local-emergency-due-to-wildfires-259289261.html\">San Diego 6<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The local declaration requests a similar state declaration, but the Governor has not yet issued that. When he does, that will allow the use of some state and federal resources.<\/p>\n<p>Some footage of the firefighting from SD 6 is below. Stay safe out there.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.bimvid.com\/v2\/vps\/xetv\/8388c250717fe52a6f7f1780fec54d0b457739bc\/ref=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zYW5kaWVnbzYuY29tLw\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>At least 9 separate fires rage as firefighters struggle to keep up<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>We were warned that due to the drought this was going to be a very bad fire year. However, just how bad is becoming painfully clear. Traditionally, we would be looking down the road a while from now before the most severe fire danger. However, there was no considerable rain this winter, and this early fire season shows it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>San Diego County authorities Wednesday declared a local emergency due to wildfires that destroyed more than 20 structures, including homes, in the northern part of the region. &#8230; Firefighters are battling wind-driven blazes in Carlsbad, Escondido, Oceanside, Bonsall and Camp Pendleton. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiego6.com\/news\/local\/San-Diego-County-authorities-declare-local-emergency-due-to-wildfires-259289261.html\">San Diego 6<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The local declaration requests a similar state declaration, but the Governor has not yet issued that. When he does, that will allow the use of some state and federal resources.<\/p>\n<p>Some footage of the firefighting from SD 6 is below. Stay safe out there.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.bimvid.com\/v2\/vps\/xetv\/8388c250717fe52a6f7f1780fec54d0b457739bc\/ref=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zYW5kaWVnbzYuY29tLw\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[2467],"class_list":["post-15493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11","tag-2467"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-41T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}