{"id":3887,"date":"2025-08-10T06:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/08\/10\/when-it-all-burns-recounts-a-historic-megafire-season-with-the-elite-los-padres-hotshots\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T06:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:24:24","slug":"when-it-all-burns-recounts-a-historic-megafire-season-with-the-elite-los-padres-hotshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/08\/10\/when-it-all-burns-recounts-a-historic-megafire-season-with-the-elite-los-padres-hotshots\/","title":{"rendered":"&lsquo;When It All Burns&rsquo; recounts a historic megafire season with the elite Los Padres Hotshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gifford Fire in Southern California has reached \u201cmegafire\u201d status, burning an area bigger than Atlanta. Megafires, which burn more than 100,000 acres, have become increasingly common in recent years. A new book, \u201cWhen It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World,\u201d is the first-hand account of a season with a team of elite firefighters. John Yang speaks with author Jordan Thomas for more.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gifford Fire in Southern California has reached \u201cmegafire\u201d status, burning an area bigger than Atlanta. Megafires, which burn more than 100,000 acres, have become increasingly common in recent years. A new book, \u201cWhen It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World,\u201d is the first-hand account of a season with a team of elite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}