{"id":37118,"date":"2021-06-30T11:53:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T18:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37118"},"modified":"2021-06-30T11:53:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T18:53:48","slug":"biden-announces-new-steps-on-wildfires-us-must-act-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37118","title":{"rendered":"Biden announces new steps on wildfires: US must &#8216;act fast&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">President Biden\u00a0announced a series of steps in response to intensifying wildfires in the western U.S. on Wednesday, calling the fires \u201ca problem for all of us\u201d and saying the U.S. must act &#8220;fast&#8221; during a meeting with western governors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know this is becoming a regular cycle and we know it\u2019s getting worse,\u201d Biden said in a briefing. \u201cThe truth is, we\u2019re playing catch-up. This is an area that\u2019s been under-resourced, but that\u2019s going to change if we have anything to do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden said his administration would hold annual briefings to\u00a0coincide with the start of the wildfire season.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u00a0announced a series of steps&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37119,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37118\/revisions\/37119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}