{"id":887,"date":"2022-04-20T02:05:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T02:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guidepost.aztute.com\/?p=887"},"modified":"2022-04-20T02:05:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T02:05:17","slug":"residents-evacuated-near-wind-whipped-arizona-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aztuteguidepost.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/residents-evacuated-near-wind-whipped-arizona-wildfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents evacuated near wind-whipped Arizona wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-article-header\" data-lpos=\"article|header\">\n<div class=\"conversation-indicator-container c-article-header__conversations\">\n<div class=\"conversation-container\"><span class=\"c-conversation-indicator-text\">JOIN THE CONVERSATION<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"viafoura conversation-replies-count\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-body\" data-lpos=\"article|body\">\n<div class=\"c-article-body__content\">\n<p class=\"text-block-container speakable-text-block-container\">FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 A fast-moving wildfire in rural northern Arizona ballooned to over 9 square miles (23 square kilometers) Tuesday as winds whipped the flames, shut down a major highway and grounded aircraft that could drop water and fire retardant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container speakable-text-block-container\">About a couple hundred homes along U.S. 89, north of Flagstaff, were evacuated as embers jumped ahead of the main blaze and smoke billowed into the air in an all-too familiar scene. Residents recalled scrambling to pack their bags and flee a dozen years ago during a much-larger wildfire burned in the same area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">Firefighters on Tuesday were up against 50 mph (80 kph) gusts that pushed the wildfire over the highway and weren\u2019t expected to let up much this week, authorities said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"seo-media-query undefined\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"seo-media-query undefined\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">\u201cIt\u2019s blowing hard, and we have ash falling on the highway,\u201d said Coconino County sheriff\u2019s spokesman Jon Paxton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">A top-level national fire management team is expected to take over the wildfire later this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 A fast-moving wildfire in rural northern Arizona ballooned to over 9 square miles (23 square kilometers) Tuesday as winds whipped the flames, shut down a major highway and grounded aircraft that could drop water and fire retardant. About a couple hundred homes along U.S. 89, north of Flagstaff, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aztuteguidepost.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aztuteguidepost.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aztuteguidepost.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aztuteguidepost.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aztuteguidepost.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aztuteguidepost.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/aztuteguidepost.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aztuteguidepost.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aztuteguidepost.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aztuteguidepost.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}