{"id":9571,"date":"2009-07-31T08:01:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T15:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9571"},"modified":"2009-07-31T08:01:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T15:01:24","slug":"blackcomb-closed-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9571","title":{"rendered":"Blackcomb Closed By Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/1846568bin.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/1846568bin.jpeg','popup','width=500,height=333,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/1846568bin-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"1846568.Bin\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whistlerblackcomb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blackcomb Mountain<\/a><\/strong> was evacuated yesterday at 3 PM after a lightening strike started a forest fire that has grown to 75 hectares in size, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/Blackcomb+Mountain+fire+reaches+hectares\/1846434\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Province<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fire was sparked by lightning yesterday night at Crystal Ridge near Crystal Hut and the Crystal chairlift, said <strong>Ellie Dupont<\/strong>, coastal fire information officer. . . \u201cAnytime there is a slope or a wind, it grows faster,\u201d she explained. She was unsure of how the winds are moving on the mountain. . . . \u201cAt this point, forest service helicopters are dropping buckets of water and water bombs are en route,\u201d said Alex Halbert, spokesperson for Whistler Blackcomb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blackcomb Mountain is completely closed today (July 31, 2009). <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/Blackcomb+Mountain+fire+reaches+hectares\/1846434\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Province<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2009\/07\/31\/bc-whistler-blackcomb-forest-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\">CBC.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackcomb Mountain was evacuated yesterday at 3 PM after a lightening strike started a forest fire that has grown to 75 hectares in size, according to a story in The Province. The fire was sparked by lightning yesterday night at Crystal Ridge near Crystal Hut and the Crystal chairlift, said Ellie Dupont, coastal fire information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9572,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571\/revisions\/9572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}