{"id":30447,"date":"2017-09-15T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/smoke-from-wildfires-fills-kent-skies\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T12:13:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T19:13:42","slug":"smoke-from-wildfires-fills-kent-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/smoke-from-wildfires-fills-kent-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke from wildfires fills Kent skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smoke from the Norse Peak fire and other wildfires on Friday near Mount Rainier is filling Kent skies.<\/p>\n<p>Puget Sound Fire as well as fire departments in Federal Way and Auburn are getting 911 calls about the smoke as people see and smell it.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been dispatched to many smoke investigations as have other fire departments in the area,&rdquo; Puget Sound Fire spokesman Kyle Ohashi said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighter crews discover no fires in the area but rather smoke from the wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>An inversion layer is holding the smoke in the Kent area, Ohashi said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We just sent out a reverse 911 call to notify people about where the smoke is coming from and to stay indoors with window and doors shut if sensitive to it,&rdquo; Ohashi said.<\/p>\n<p>For information about air quality, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/airnow.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\">airnow.gov<\/a> and enter your zip code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoke from the Norse Peak fire and other wildfires on Friday near Mount Rainier is filling Kent skies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":30448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-30447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30447"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}