{"id":8372,"date":"2012-07-10T07:29:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T13:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/while-wildfires-burn-the-american-west-massive-aerial-tankers-sit-unused\/"},"modified":"2012-07-10T08:07:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T14:07:24","slug":"while-wildfires-burn-the-american-west-massive-aerial-tankers-sit-unused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/while-wildfires-burn-the-american-west-massive-aerial-tankers-sit-unused\/","title":{"rendered":"While wildfires burn the American west, massive aerial tankers sit unused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of horrific wildfires, some parts of the West are enjoying an early arrival of monsoonal rains to help dampen fire danger. In the aftermath of the deadly blazes, questions are being raised as to why some of the nation\u2019s most powerful aerial firefighting assets sat on runways while homes and property were destroyed. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/while-wildfires-burn-the-american-west-massive-aerial-tankers-sit-unused?cid=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/while-wildfires-burn-the-american-west-massive-aerial-tankers-sit-unused?cid=rss\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/8a\/9f\/1341926563_8065_747.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of horrific wildfires, some parts of the West are enjoying an early arrival of monsoonal rains to help dampen fire danger. In the aftermath of the deadly blazes, questions are being raised as to why some of the nation\u2019s most powerful aerial firefighting assets sat on runways while homes and property were destroyed. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/while-wildfires-burn-the-american-west-massive-aerial-tankers-sit-unused\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">While wildfires burn the American west, massive aerial tankers sit unused<\/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":[540,8],"tags":[582,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372"}],"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=8372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8375,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions\/8375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}