{"id":12161,"date":"2013-02-07T11:47:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T19:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-emergency-planning-meeting-set-for-feb-20\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T21:20:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T04:20:37","slug":"kent-emergency-planning-meeting-set-for-feb-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-emergency-planning-meeting-set-for-feb-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent emergency planning meeting set for Feb. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The <a title=\"kent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kentfirerfa.org\/index.aspx?NID=125\" target=\"_self\">Kent Local Emergency Planning Committee<\/a> (LEPC) will have its annual meeting from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20 at the Kent Police\/Fire Training Center at 24523 116th Ave. S.E.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 established requirements for federal, state, and local governments and industry regarding emergency planning and &#8220;community right-to-know&#8221; reporting on hazardous and toxic chemicals, according to a Kent Fire Department media release.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The community right-to-know provisions help to increase the public\u2019s knowledge and access to information on the presence of hazardous chemicals in their communities and releases of these chemicals into the environment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Kent LEPC is a partnership between the community, business partners, and first responders to improve chemical safety and protect public health and the environment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For more information call the Kent Office of Emergency Management at 253-856-4440.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) will have its annual meeting from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20 at the Kent Police\/Fire Training Center at 24523 116th Ave. S.E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12161"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}