{"id":9634,"date":"2022-09-04T15:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T22:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9634"},"modified":"2022-09-04T15:49:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T22:49:30","slug":"wildfires-but-not-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/04\/wildfires-but-not-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires, But Not Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

For family that has been worrying about me living in Northern California with all the forest fires and such. I’m totally fine :-)<\/p>\n

I blame the news. I just found some of the national news stories<\/a>. One was titled “Mandatory Evacuations in Northern California Wildfire”. and it starts out, “Residents in three Northern California communities were told to leave their homes immediately as a fast-moving wildfire…” But that fire, the Mill Fire, is in Siskiyou County, a 4 1\/2 hr drive north of me!<\/p>\n

Yes, we often have “smoke season” where we live in the east bay but it hasn’t happened this year yet. We’re feeling generally prepared for it.<\/p>\n

Where I live, in El Cerrito, CA, the seasons are mild (right now we’ve got a heat wave and it’s 85 degrees. 30 miles east in Concord it’s 103. 30 miles west in San Francisco it’s 75 degrees.<\/p>\n

I live in such an urban area, it would be unheard of for a wildfire to reach me, though power failures due to wildfires are possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For family that has been worrying about me living in Northern California with all the forest fires and such. I’m totally fine :-) I blame the news. I just found some of the national news stories. One was titled “Mandatory Evacuations in Northern California Wildfire”. and it starts out, “Residents in three Northern California communities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9635,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9634\/revisions\/9635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}