{"id":5663,"date":"2019-08-19T21:29:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T05:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2019-08-19T21:29:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T05:29:59","slug":"information-caribou-lake-fire-81919-800-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2019\/08\/19\/information-caribou-lake-fire-81919-800-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"information: Caribou Lake Fire, 8\/19\/19, 8:00 PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The school district contacted family and staff contacts in PowerSchool associated with Kachemak-Selo, Razdolna, and Voznesenka schools with this message, on Monday evening:<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The school district is contacting you with this important information about the Caribou Lake Fire at the request of the Borough Office of Emergency Management<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KPBAlerts\/\">KPB Alerts<\/a> information, <\/strong><strong>8\/19\/19 8:00 pm<\/strong><br \/>\nThe fast moving Caribou Lake Fire, located about 25 miles northeast of Homer in the Fox Creek Drainage, has grown from 50 acres to approximately 150 acres in the last hour. A load of smokejumpers have been deployed to work on structure protection for the nearly 30 structures that are threatened by the fire.<br \/>\nTactical firefighting aircraft \u2013 including Fire Bosses, two heavy airtankers, and the local Alaska Division of Forestry helicopter \u2013 are currently assisting firefighters on the ground with both water and retardant drops. <strong>The fire is 100 percent active, burning in black spruce, and backing east due to winds from the west.<\/strong><br \/>\nBecause of aircraft working in the area, civilians are asked to stay out of the area for their own safety. Being in the area, even on the ground, can impede fire operations.<br \/>\n<strong>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KPBAlerts\/\">KPB Alerts<\/a> on Facebook, and fo<\/strong><strong>r additional information on the Ready-Set-Go! Evacuation Guidelines and up-to-date fire information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpboem.com\/?fbclid=IwAR3It6OG244lZUMChVSUDlB0_JjjipRe6FaSZ4yki827E1d1N2DfEaN7f4c\">www.kpboem.com<\/a>\u00a0or call 907-262-INFO.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The school district contacted family and staff contacts in PowerSchool associated with Kachemak-Selo, Razdolna, and Voznesenka schools with this message, on Monday evening: The school district is contacting you with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2019\/08\/19\/information-caribou-lake-fire-81919-800-pm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;information: Caribou Lake Fire, 8\/19\/19, 8:00 PM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kpbsd-district-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}