{"id":4136,"date":"2015-01-05T20:27:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T01:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2015-01-05T20:27:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T01:27:09","slug":"adelaide-hills-bushfires-crews-racing-to-contain-blaze-before-high-temperatures-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4136","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide Hills bushfires: Crews racing to contain blaze before high temperatures hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-01-06\/adelaide-hills-bushfire-temperatures-rise-crews-flight-blaze\/6001568\" target=\"_blank\">Adelaide Hills bushfires: Crews racing to contain blaze before high temperatures hit<\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"first\">Hundreds of firefighters are racing to contain a blaze burning out of control north-east of Adelaide, with temperatures set to soar today.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said more than 375 firefighters from South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales would work on securing the 240-kilometre perimeter of the bushfire that has already burnt more than 12,000 hectares.<\/p>\n<p>The Country Fire Service (CFS) warned the next 48 hours would be crucial to firefighting efforts due to the higher temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today we will see easterly winds coming through and by mid-afternoon, 4:00pm, we&#8217;re going to be back to 36 degrees [Celsius],&#8221; CFS state coordinator Brenton Eden said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to get through Tuesday and Wednesday and see no increase in the perimeter of this fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Active fires in inaccessible terrain in the south-western corner and most southern point of the fire were causing the most concern for crews.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just do not want this fire to go any further south. It then starts to impact on a whole new scenario,&#8221; Mr Eden said.<\/p>\n<p>The CFS has a record number of 31 aircraft at its disposal today, which will be dispersed across South Australia to manage the fire risk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide Hills bushfires: Crews racing to contain blaze before high temperatures hit Hundreds of firefighters are racing to contain a blaze burning out of control north-east of Adelaide, with temperatures set to soar today. Authorities said more than 375 firefighters from South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales would work on securing the 240-kilometre perimeter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2360,41,2447,288],"class_list":["post-4136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-adelaide-hills","tag-australia","tag-bushfire","tag-extreme-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4137,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions\/4137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}