{"id":18758,"date":"2014-07-10T20:55:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T12:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=18758"},"modified":"2014-07-10T18:51:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T10:51:51","slug":"officials-let-wildfire-burn-after-lightning-strike-in-banff-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/10\/officials-let-wildfire-burn-after-lightning-strike-in-banff-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials let wildfire burn after lightning strike in Banff National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18759\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18759\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Moraine_Lake_17092005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18759\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Moraine_Lake_17092005.jpg\" alt=\"Valley of the Ten Peaks and Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Canada. Photo by Gorgo \/ Wikimedia Commons. \" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Moraine_Lake_17092005.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Moraine_Lake_17092005-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Moraine_Lake_17092005-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valley of the Ten Peaks and Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Canada. Photo by Gorgo \/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BANFF, Alta.\u2014Wildfires are usually a bad thing but provincial officials say a blaze sparked by lightning in Banff National Park has actually done them a favour.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta Wildfire Information Officer Geoffrey Driscoll says the fire, which is contained, is in an area where they were planning to do a prescribed burn.<\/p>\n<p>He says it was started by lightening a few days ago, and there\u2019s no urgency to put it out.<\/p>\n<p>The wildfire is surrounded by natural fire breaks like streams and mountains and it could be weeks or months before it burns itself out.<\/p>\n<p>No-stopping zones are in place on Highway 93 North and Highway 11 due to fire operations and smoke in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta has recorded about 800 wildfires so far this year, down from the average of 900.<\/p>\n<p>A fire advisory was issued Wednesday in the Slave Lake Wildlife Management Area, where the hazard is considered high due to a lack of rain and increasing temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Safe campfires will be permitted in campgrounds and backcountry or random camping areas, but permits for other burning may be restricted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANFF, Alta.\u2014Wildfires are usually a bad thing but provincial officials say a blaze sparked by lightning in Banff National Park &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}