{"id":52915,"date":"2014-06-21T01:26:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T06:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=52915"},"modified":"2014-06-21T01:26:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T06:26:32","slug":"fema-promotes-lightning-safety-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/06\/21\/fema-promotes-lightning-safety-week\/","title":{"rendered":"FEMA promotes lightning safety week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>FEMA information<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The week of June 22-28 marks the Federal Emergency Management Agency\u2019s promotion of Lightning Safety Awareness Week \u2013 an awareness campaign to learn about the lightning hazards of summer and the preparedness actions people should take when storms threaten.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MGN Online graphic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/FEMA-logo-on-blue-background-8-2011.jpg\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/FEMA-logo-on-blue-background-8-2011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-11864\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"FEMA logo on blue background 8-2011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/FEMA-logo-on-blue-background-8-2011.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>During the week, FEMA\u2019s Region V office in Chicago will be distributing lightning safety tips as well as important information about protecting your property in a storm and staying safe while at a park or anywhere else outdoors when lightning is near.<\/p>\n<p>For even more readiness information throughout the week, follow FEMA online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/femaregion5\">twitter.com\/femaregion5<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fema\">facebook.com\/fema<\/a>. Individuals can always find valuable thunderstorm and lightning information at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ready.gov\/thunderstorms-lightning\">ready.gov\/thunderstorms-lightning<\/a> or download the free FEMA app, available for Android, Apple or Blackberry devices.<\/p>\n<p>FEMA\u2019s mission is to support citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation, Americans work together to build, sustain, and improve their capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEMA information The week of June 22-28 marks the Federal Emergency Management Agency\u2019s promotion of Lightning Safety Awareness Week \u2013 an awareness campaign to learn about the lightning hazards of summer and the preparedness actions people should take when storms threaten. During the week, FEMA\u2019s Region V office in Chicago will be distributing lightning safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 23:27:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}