{"id":289113,"date":"2026-08-03T10:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=289113"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:50:05","slug":"around-60000-ordered-to-evacuate-amid-wildfires-in-spokane-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/289113\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 60,000 ordered to evacuate amid wildfires in Spokane, Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Around 60,000 people have been ordered to evacuate as wildfires threaten the city of Spokane ‌in Washington state, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The Spokane Area Fire, which contains three separate blazes, was ⁠threatening the areas under evacuation orders, Spokane Fire Chief Tom Williams said.<\/p>\n

The fires had burned 2,180 hectares by Sunday, according to a federal incident management team.<\/p>\n

Spokane ‌Mayor ⁠Lisa Brown called it “the worst natural disaster our region has faced.”<\/p>\n

Washington Governor Bob ⁠Ferguson said he had requested ⁠assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Sunday. The governor has declared a statewide emergency.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Around 60,000 people have been ordered to evacuate as wildfires threaten the city of Spokane ‌in Washington state, Reuters writes. The Spokane Area Fire, which contains three separate blazes, was ⁠threatening the areas under evacuation orders, Spokane Fire Chief Tom Williams said. The fires had burned 2,180 hectares by Sunday, according to a federal incident […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":289077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289124,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289113\/revisions\/289124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}