{"id":372209,"date":"2018-08-05T14:24:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T13:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-declares-california-wildfires-as-major-emergency\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T13:24:01","slug":"presstv-trump-declares-california-wildfires-as-major-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-declares-california-wildfires-as-major-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump declares California wildfires as &#8216;major emergency&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A seventh person died in a wildfire in the US state of California on Saturday as a couple of other fast-growing wildfires expanded and continued to spread and President Donald Trump declared a \u201cmajor disaster.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More residents in northern California were ordered to evacuate their homes as weary firefighters endured high temperatures and gusting winds.<\/p>\n<p>The Carr fire, about 162 miles (261 km) north of Sacramento, claimed the life of a power company lineman Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is one of the most destructive in California history and had already killed six people, including a great-grandmother and two children, and a firefighter and bulldozer operator.<\/p>\n<p>Two other blazes collectively called the Mendocino Complex burned in Mendocino, Lake and Colusa counties, about 90 miles north of San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The Mendocino Complex fires cover more than two-thirds the size of sprawling Los Angeles. They have forced the evacuation of more than 20,000&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/05\/570272\/US-California-wildfires\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seventh person died in a wildfire in the US state of California on Saturday as a couple of other fast-growing wildfires expanded and continued to spread and President Donald Trump declared a \u201cmajor disaster.\u201d More residents in northern California were ordered to evacuate their homes as weary firefighters endured high temperatures and gusting winds. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}