{"id":220052,"date":"2014-05-15T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123410904"},"modified":"2014-05-15T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T18:49:00","slug":"begin-summertime-wildfire-prep-this-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220052","title":{"rendered":"Begin summertime wildfire prep this May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123410904\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2013\/06\/130612-F-CD000-032.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As a wave of fresh snow blankets Colorado Springs area streets and lawns this week, it&#8217;s difficult to imagine that summer is just around the corner. Soon, many friends and families will enjoy backyard cookouts and barbecues or take camping trips into the high country. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, as local residents know all too well, the heat and dry air of summer also brings a very real danger &#8211; wildfire.<\/p>\n<p>Last June, the Black Forest fire consumed 14,000 acres and more than 500 homes. It forced 39,000 people from their homes and killed two&#160;Schriever members. In June 2012, the Waldo Canyon fire burned 18,000 acres, 346 homes and forced 32,000 people to abandon their neighborhood. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123410904\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}