{"id":16673,"date":"2016-08-16T15:57:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T21:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=16673"},"modified":"2016-08-16T16:04:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T22:04:26","slug":"firenado-captured-on-video-at-beaver-creek-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/firenado-captured-on-video-at-beaver-creek-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Firenado captured on video at Beaver Creek Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Wildfire-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-15068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Wildfire-2.jpg\" alt=\"Wildfires\" width=\"299\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Wildfire-2.jpg 623w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Wildfire-2-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Wildfire-2-450x333.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Wildfire-2-590x437.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>Thus far, Colorado has been fortunate with relatively few large  wildfires. The one notable exception is the Beaver Creek Fire where a firefighter recently captured video of a \u2018firenado.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Also called a fire whirl, a firenado occurs when the rising heat from the blaze meets whirling winds.\u00a0 The effect and appearance is much like a tornado \u2013 but made of fire and ash instead of dust and debris.\u00a0 Check out the amazing video below.<\/p>\n<p>As of today, the Beaver Creek Fire has scorched over 36,000 acres since it started on June 19th.\u00a0 Burning northwest of Walden near the Colorado \/ Wyoming border, the blaze is only 44 percent contained and full containment isn\u2019t expected until cooler temperatures arrive late next month into October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inciweb.nwcg.gov\/incident\/4797\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the latest details on the blaze from Inciweb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCBSDenver%2Fvideos%2F10154080091743300%2F&#038;width=600&#038;show_text=false&#038;height=337&#038;appId\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus far, Colorado has been fortunate with relatively few large wildfires. The one notable exception is the Beaver Creek Fire where a firefighter recently captured video of a \u2018firenado.\u2019 Also called a fire whirl, a firenado occurs when the rising heat from the blaze meets whirling winds.\u00a0 The effect and appearance is much like a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/firenado-captured-on-video-at-beaver-creek-fire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firenado captured on video at Beaver Creek Fire<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16673"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16678,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16673\/revisions\/16678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}