{"id":33019,"date":"2018-06-04T11:12:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T11:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=33019"},"modified":"2018-06-04T11:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T11:12:40","slug":"new-mexico-wildfires-force-hundreds-to-evacuate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/new-mexico-wildfires-force-hundreds-to-evacuate\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico wildfires force hundreds to evacuate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"heading_small\">About 300 structures are threatened in Cimarron, New Mexico, where officials issued a mandatory evacuation on Friday (June 1) as wildfires, stoked by low humidity and high temperatures, raged in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The two fires, about 250 miles (400 km) apart in the drought-parched Four Corners region of the southwestern United States, have consumed nearly 32,000 acres (12,000 hectares) between them, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The larger of the two, the so-called Ute Park Fire in Colfax County, New Mexico, was zero percent contained after scorching some 30,000 acres by Saturday (June 2) evening near Cimarron.<\/p>\n<p>The town of about 1,100 people lies just northeast of the Santa Fe National Forest, which was indefinitely closed to the public in a rare measure prompted by the heightened fire risk from prolonged drought.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service predicts that rainfall will hit the region early Sunday (June 3) afternoon, bringing relief to the firefighters battling wild blazes in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 300 structures are threatened in Cimarron, New Mexico, where officials issued a mandatory evacuation on Friday (June 1) as wildfires, stoked by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33021,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33019\/revisions\/33021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}