{"id":8206,"date":"2012-06-28T11:24:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T17:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/as-wildfires-rage-questions-arise-about-lack-of-air-tankers-to-fight-the-flames\/"},"modified":"2012-06-28T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T17:46:00","slug":"as-wildfires-rage-questions-arise-about-lack-of-air-tankers-to-fight-the-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/as-wildfires-rage-questions-arise-about-lack-of-air-tankers-to-fight-the-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"As wildfires rage, questions arise about lack of air tankers to fight the flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is barely a week old and yet hundreds of thousands of acres in the West have burned causing tens of millions of dollars in damage. As Colorado and New Mexico cope with record-setting disasters, many are asking questions about the lack of a competent air tanker fleet after a decade of decline. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/as-wildfires-rage-questions-abound-about-lack-of-air-tankers-to-fight-the-flame\" target=\"_blank\">Read more on Examiner.com about why President Barack Obama may face tough questions when he comes to Colorado tomorrow.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/as-wildfires-rage-questions-abound-about-lack-of-air-tankers-to-fight-the-flame\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A U.S. Forest Service aircraft breaks away as a Modular Airborne Firefighting System-equipped C-130 begins dropping retardant on the Waldo Canyon fire. Photo credit:  U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Thomas J. Doscher \" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/62\/6f\/1340904092_8418_011.jpg\" alt=\"A U.S. Forest Service aircraft breaks away as a Modular Airborne Firefighting System-equipped C-130 begins dropping retardant on the Waldo Canyon fire. Photo credit:  U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Thomas J. Doscher \" width=\"320\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is barely a week old and yet hundreds of thousands of acres in the West have burned causing tens of millions of dollars in damage. As Colorado and New Mexico cope with record-setting disasters, many are asking questions about the lack of a competent air tanker fleet after a decade of decline. \u00a0Read more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/as-wildfires-rage-questions-arise-about-lack-of-air-tankers-to-fight-the-flames\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As wildfires rage, questions arise about lack of air tankers to fight the flames<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[404,569,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206"}],"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=8206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8207,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions\/8207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}