{"id":356,"date":"2008-09-16T22:25:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T03:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2008-10-23T17:10:48","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T22:10:48","slug":"yacht-warehouse-fire-in-galveston-during-hurricane-ike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/16\/yacht-warehouse-fire-in-galveston-during-hurricane-ike\/","title":{"rendered":"Yacht Warehouse Fire in Galveston during Hurricane Ike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the late afternoon hours, an intense fire broke out on the east side of Galveston on the edge of the bay at a yacht facility.\u00a0 Surge water from the bay had already risen and surrouned the area, and firefighters could not reach the building.\u00a0 This fire burned for hours and engulfed areas downwind in thick black smoke for miles.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know the cause of the fire, but it could have been a power line taken down by the winds.\u00a0 The short version sent out to the news outlets is embedded here.\u00a0 A longer stock footage version can be seen on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WmYhvDOcR_w\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3FP69Y6HfPk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3FP69Y6HfPk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late afternoon hours, an intense fire broke out on the east side of Galveston on the edge of the bay at a yacht facility.\u00a0 Surge water from the bay had already risen and surrouned the area, and firefighters could not reach the building.\u00a0 This fire burned for hours and engulfed areas downwind in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather","category-storm-chasing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}