{"id":23484,"date":"2014-08-25T17:37:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T09:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23484"},"modified":"2014-08-25T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T09:37:14","slug":"b-c-firefighters-get-a-break-as-ontario-fire-crews-step-in-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/25\/b-c-firefighters-get-a-break-as-ontario-fire-crews-step-in-to-help\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. firefighters get a break as Ontario fire crews step in to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefighters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23485\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefighters.jpg\" alt=\"firefighters\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefighters.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefighters-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; Firefighters in British Columbia will be getting a much-deserved break after crews from Ontario arrived in Prince George to help out in one of the busiest fire seasons in years.<\/p>\n<p>The B.C. Wildfire Management Branch says 60 firefighters and 30 support workers will be relieving crews that have been working for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Navi Saini (sah-nee) of the branch says this year 365 people from across Canada have come to B.C. to fight the blazes, and dozens from Australia and Alaska are also helping out.<\/p>\n<p>Saini says cooler temperatures have helped lower fire-danger ratings across B.C., but some coastal areas still have campfire bans, and hot and dry conditions remain in the north.<\/p>\n<p>The province has about 1,200 of its people battling 165 fires across B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have responded to more than 1,200 fires since April, and more than a third of them were caused by people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; Firefighters in British Columbia will be getting a much-deserved break after crews from Ontario arrived in Prince George &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23484","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=23484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}