{"id":4399,"date":"2016-06-18T15:05:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T07:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/18\/fleeting-firenado-caught-on-camera-in-california-wildfire\/"},"modified":"2016-06-18T15:05:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T07:05:41","slug":"fleeting-firenado-caught-on-camera-in-california-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/18\/fleeting-firenado-caught-on-camera-in-california-wildfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleeting firenado caught on camera in California wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fstory%2fthumbnail%2f12038%2f736998c9c3e443ec9c5bc28bc739e666\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/As6dPe8IENbB19dVJJ7jPU6lPiU=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fstory%2Fthumbnail%2F12038%2F736998c9c3e443ec9c5bc28bc739e666.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Fleeting+firenado+caught+on+camera+in+California+wildfire&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F17%2Ffirenado-california%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F17%2Ffirenado-california%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A wildfire in Southern California that has already spread to over 4,000 acres created a firenado on Thursday, a rare yet mesmerizing event that&#8217;s just slightly more believable than a sharknado.<\/p>\n<p>The wildfire has caused Santa Barbara County to declare a state of emergency as the blaze spread over the Santa Ynez Mountains. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-sherpa-fire-20160617-snap-story.html\">The <i>LA Times<\/i> reports<\/a> that only 5% on the fire has been contained.<\/p>\n<p>The firenado, which actually isn&#8217;t a tornado at all, was captured on video in Refugio Canyon, and was formed as the result of hot, dry air rising quickly from the ground, according <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/45676-what-is-a-firenado.html\">to <i>Live Science<\/i><\/a>. As the air rises, vertical columns of air are formed which then begin to swirl in a vortex. 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The wildfire has caused Santa Barbara County to declare &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/18\/fleeting-firenado-caught-on-camera-in-california-wildfire\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}