{"id":4380,"date":"2015-01-11T08:30:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2015-01-11T08:30:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T13:30:42","slug":"wind-change-upgrades-bullsbrook-bushfire-to-emergency-warning-as-firefighters-focus-on-the-northern-flank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4380","title":{"rendered":"Wind change upgrades Bullsbrook bushfire to emergency warning as firefighters focus on the northern flank"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-01-11\/crews-race-to-contain-bullsbrook-blaze\/6010738\" target=\"_blank\">Wind change upgrades Bullsbrook bushfire to emergency warning as firefighters focus on the northern flank<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"first\">A bushfire in the northern Perth suburb of Bullsbrook has been upgraded to an emergency warning after a wind change drives the blaze north-east.<\/p>\n<p>There is a risk the northern flank could become the new head of the fire and push north into suburbs including Chittering and Muchea, the Department of Fire and Emergency (DFES) said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was downgraded to a watch and act warning this morning after fire crews worked overnight to try and contain it, but the south-easterly wind change has sparked a bushfire emergency warning.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is uncontrolled and uncontained and has so far burnt 6,600 hectares of land, damaging two derelict homes and five sheds.<\/p>\n<p>About 350 firefighters will work throughout the night to fight the blaze, focusing their efforts on establishing new containment lines and shoring-up existing ones.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind change upgrades Bullsbrook bushfire to emergency warning as firefighters focus on the northern flank A bushfire in the northern Perth suburb of Bullsbrook has been upgraded to an emergency warning after a wind change drives the blaze north-east. There is a risk the northern flank could become the new head of the fire and [&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":[41,2554,2447,288,2582,2553],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-australia","tag-bullsbrook","tag-bushfire","tag-extreme-weather","tag-fire","tag-perth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380","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=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4381,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}