{"id":376690,"date":"2018-09-09T18:22:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T17:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-roaring-california-wildfire-explodes-in-size\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T18:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T17:22:49","slug":"presstv-roaring-california-wildfire-explodes-in-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-roaring-california-wildfire-explodes-in-size\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Roaring California wildfire explodes in size"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A roaring wildfire that shut down a stretch of a major interstate near the California-Oregon border exploded in size as crews on Saturday scrambled to prevent flames from reaching rural communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The blaze in California&#8217;s Shasta-Trinity National Forest was burning out of control after chewing through 58 square miles (150 square kilometers) of timber and brush since Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Aircraft were temporarily prevented from making water and retardant drops because heavy smoke was trapped under cloud cover, making for limited visibility for pilots.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters working in rugged terrain were contending with hot temperatures and gusty winds.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities announced Friday that a 45-mile (72-kilometer) section of Interstate 5 north of Redding would remain closed at least until Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The fire has destroyed thousands of trees \u2014 some 70 feet (20 meters) tall \u2014 that could fall onto the highway that traverses the entire West Coast from Mexico to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/09\/573675\/US-California-wildfire-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roaring wildfire that shut down a stretch of a major interstate near the California-Oregon border exploded in size as crews on Saturday scrambled to prevent flames from reaching rural communities. The blaze in California&#8217;s Shasta-Trinity National Forest was burning out of control after chewing through 58 square miles (150 square kilometers) of timber and [&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-376690","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\/376690","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=376690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}