{"id":8168,"date":"2012-06-27T06:34:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T12:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/firestorm-of-epic-proportions-explodes-in-colorado-as-thousands-flee-wildfires\/"},"modified":"2012-06-27T06:46:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T12:46:03","slug":"firestorm-of-epic-proportions-explodes-in-colorado-as-thousands-flee-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/firestorm-of-epic-proportions-explodes-in-colorado-as-thousands-flee-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Firestorm of epic proportions\u2019 explodes in Colorado as thousands flee wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just days into summer Colorado was already experiencing a devastating season of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/topic\/wildfires\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">wildfires<\/a>. On Tuesday the fires became an inferno forcing more than 30,000 residents across the state to evacuate ahead of the flames.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/firestorm-of-epic-proportions-explodes-colorado-as-thousands-flee-wildfires?cid=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Get the latest on the Waldo Canyon Fire, Flagstaff Fire and more on Examiner.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/firestorm-of-epic-proportions-explodes-colorado-as-thousands-flee-wildfires?cid=rss\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A massive smoke plume erupts from the Waldo Canyon Fire burning near Colorado Springs, Colorado Tuesday afternoon. Photo credit:  Tom Magnuson, National Weather Service\" src=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/f9\/96\/1340800172_1225_03.jpg\" alt=\"A massive smoke plume erupts from the Waldo Canyon Fire burning near Colorado Springs, Colorado Tuesday afternoon. Photo credit:  Tom Magnuson, National Weather Service\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days into summer Colorado was already experiencing a devastating season of\u00a0wildfires. On Tuesday the fires became an inferno forcing more than 30,000 residents across the state to evacuate ahead of the flames.\u00a0Get the latest on the Waldo Canyon Fire, Flagstaff Fire and more on Examiner.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,540],"tags":[575,569,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8168"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8169,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8168\/revisions\/8169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}