{"id":14586,"date":"2013-07-30T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=14586"},"modified":"2013-08-16T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T23:25:48","slug":"freeway-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2013\/07\/30\/freeway-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeway Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started smelling smoke through my open window while I was working at my computer in the afternoon. It was far too early for the occasional evening smoke I catch a whiff of whenever a neighbor uses their fireplace on cooler nights.<\/p>\n<p>I hurried to the backyard worried it might be a canyon fire, but it turned out to be another freeway median fire, about the fourth one I&#8217;ve seen since I&#8217;ve lived here. Oddly enough they always seem to occur in the about the same spot.<\/p>\n<p>The fire department was already on scene extinguishing the flames. In other words, not really all that exciting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Freeway-Fire-07-30-13-lo-res.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[14586]\"><img data-attachment-id=\"14587\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2013\/07\/30\/freeway-fire\/freeway-fire-07-30-13-lo-res\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Freeway-Fire-07-30-13-lo-res.jpg?fit=720%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D70&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1375198505&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Freeway Fire 07-30-13 lo-res\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Freeway-Fire-07-30-13-lo-res.jpg?fit=580%2C386&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Freeway-Fire-07-30-13-lo-res.jpg?fit=570%2C380&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14587\" title=\"\" alt=\"Freeway Fire 07-30-13 lo-res\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Freeway-Fire-07-30-13-lo-res-580x386.jpg?resize=570%2C379\" width=\"570\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Freeway-Fire-07-30-13-lo-res.jpg?resize=580%2C386&amp;ssl=1 580w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Freeway-Fire-07-30-13-lo-res.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started smelling smoke through my open window while I was working at my computer in the afternoon. It was far too early for the occasional evening smoke I catch a whiff of whenever a neighbor uses their fireplace on cooler nights. I hurried to the backyard worried it might be a canyon fire, but it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2013\/07\/30\/freeway-fire\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-3Ng","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7429,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/07\/01\/hot-car\/","url_meta":{"origin":14586,"position":0},"title":"Hot Car","date":"July 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Had ourselves a car fire on the freeway interchange in the canyon below our house. Fire department\u00a0and police\u00a0put it out and towed it very quickly and had the traffic backup moving in about twenty minutes.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Miscellaneous&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Car-Fire01-07-01-11-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8742,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/09\/19\/screech-crash-and-roll\/","url_meta":{"origin":14586,"position":1},"title":"Screech, Crash And Roll","date":"September 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Someone was having a bad day. While harvesting some milkweed seeds in our backyard I heard some screeching tires coming from the I-5 in the canyon below. Didn't think anything of it at first since I'd heard it before. But this one lasted a bit longer and then I heard\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Miscellaneous&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Accident01-09-19-11-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12921,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/05\/20\/1940-packard\/","url_meta":{"origin":14586,"position":2},"title":"1940 Packard","date":"May 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"While driving on the freeway down to the Tapias' house to watch the solar eclipse, I drove passed this beautiful, customized 1940 Packard Coupe heading south on I-805. 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