{"id":140411,"date":"2015-08-04T07:15:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T07:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=140411"},"modified":"2015-08-04T07:15:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T07:15:33","slug":"firefighters-struggle-to-contain-blaze-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=140411","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters struggle to contain blaze in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Firefighters are still struggling to contain series of blazes in California, despite a slight drop in temperatures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some 9,000 firefighters worked throughout Monday in steep terrain and rugged conditions to battle about 18 fires, officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The biggest blaze &#8211; the so-called Rocky fire north of San Francisco &#8211; is reported to be spreading fast and has already consumed more than 90 square miles (145 sq km) of land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/84654785_b6cfdeeb-76e6-4c45-8a71-1b886753932c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140413\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/84654785_b6cfdeeb-76e6-4c45-8a71-1b886753932c.jpg\" alt=\"_84654785_b6cfdeeb-76e6-4c45-8a71-1b886753932c\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/84654785_b6cfdeeb-76e6-4c45-8a71-1b886753932c.jpg 624w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/84654785_b6cfdeeb-76e6-4c45-8a71-1b886753932c-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thousands have been ordered evacuated.<br \/>\nAuthorities said some progress had been made in tackling the number of fires, which have been brought down from 21.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BBC&#8217;s David Willis reports from Los Angeles that the Rocky fire tripled in size over the weekend, with officials describing its rate of growth as unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/84654776_1a2f2d25-0b40-4814-925b-ca92b900ce0d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140412\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/84654776_1a2f2d25-0b40-4814-925b-ca92b900ce0d.jpg\" alt=\"_84654776_1a2f2d25-0b40-4814-925b-ca92b900ce0d\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/84654776_1a2f2d25-0b40-4814-925b-ca92b900ce0d.jpg 624w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/84654776_1a2f2d25-0b40-4814-925b-ca92b900ce0d-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 24 homes were destroyed as the blaze was whipped up by winds that fuelled the flames, our correspondent says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen a fire act like this one,&#8221; evacuee Vicki Estrella said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing the way that thing spread. There was smoke 300ft (91m) in the air.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Evacuation advisories have been issued to 13,000 people. More than 6,000 properties currently lie in the path of the flames.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/84654790_7aed09b4-7d30-4ebd-9669-734e7ef39a9f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140415\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/84654790_7aed09b4-7d30-4ebd-9669-734e7ef39a9f.jpg\" alt=\"_84654790_7aed09b4-7d30-4ebd-9669-734e7ef39a9f\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/84654790_7aed09b4-7d30-4ebd-9669-734e7ef39a9f.jpg 624w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/84654790_7aed09b4-7d30-4ebd-9669-734e7ef39a9f-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four years of drought in the western US have left the landscape tinder dry. Coupled with unseasonably humid conditions, lightning strikes and gusty winds, this has posed a severe challenge for fire fighters and water-dropping aircraft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While some of the reported progress in tackling the blazes has been attributed to the slight fall in temperatures, there is no rain forecast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters are still struggling to contain series of blazes in California, despite a slight drop in temperatures. Some 9,000 firefighters worked throughout Monday in steep terrain and rugged conditions to battle about 18 fires, officials said. The biggest blaze &#8211; the so-called Rocky fire north of San Francisco &#8211; is reported to be spreading fast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":140414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-140411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}