{"id":2449534,"date":"2019-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=313879"},"modified":"2019-10-07T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:40:07","slug":"conditions-ripe-for-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/conditions-ripe-for-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Conditions ripe for fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As warm, windy and dry weather conditions continue into autumn, we want to remind the public to use caution with fire as fire danger in the area continues to increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We are starting to see red flag warnings issued by the National Weather Service. The forecast calls for winds, low relative humidity and little to no precipitation in the near future. Fire officials are monitoring the situation closely as current fire conditions are similar to what we usually see mid-summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Currently there are no fire restrictions in place, but I remind everyone that 90% of wildfires are human-caused. Don\u2019t let your guard down because the nights are getting cooler. Our afternoon burn periods are still hot and dry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">When you are out in the backcountry enjoying the beautiful fall colors, we need everyone to do their part to keep us safe. Please put your campfires out cold and call 911 report a wildfire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Valerie MacDonald<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Emergency manager, Pitkin County<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/conditions-ripe-for-fires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As warm, windy and dry weather conditions continue into autumn, we want to remind the public to use caution with fire as fire danger in the area continues to increase. We are starting to see red flag warnings issued by the National Weather Service. The forecast calls for winds, low relative humidity and little to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2449534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 19:53:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449585,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449534\/revisions\/2449585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}