{"id":6646,"date":"2021-06-18T15:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/california-declares-state-of-emergency-amid-extreme-heat\/"},"modified":"2021-06-18T15:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:22:32","slug":"california-declares-state-of-emergency-amid-extreme-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/california-declares-state-of-emergency-amid-extreme-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"California declares state of emergency amid extreme heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/California-declares-state-of-emergency-amid-extreme-heat.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency to address power grid concerns as the western US faces an extreme heat wave, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/report.az\/en\/\">Report<\/a> informs, referring to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of California and a handful of regions in other western states have seen record daily highs this week, with temperatures soaring up to 118 degrees (47.7C).<\/p>\n<p>The move \u2013 citing &#8220;extreme heat peril&#8221; &#8211; will ease restrictions on backup generators, auxiliary engines and other sources of carbon-powered electricity as the state braces for a sweltering weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom and state utility leaders were widely criticized during a heatwave last summer when more than 200,000 Californians suffered two days of rolling power outages \u2013 the first time residents had to deal with such issues in nearly 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel consumption and air-quality restrictions on utility companies are also being rolled back during the emergency.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s main power grid operator issued a statewide &#8220;Flex Alert&#8221; earlier in the day, asking residents to do their best to conserve power by setting their thermostats above 78 degrees (25.5C) and avoiding using washers, dishwashers and other major appliances.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '800789640666009');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/report.az\/en\/other-countries\/california-declares-state-of-emergency-amid-extreme-heat\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency to address power grid concerns as the western US faces an extreme heat wave, Report informs, referring to Fox News. Parts of California and a handful of regions in other western states have seen record daily highs this week, with temperatures soaring up to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/california-declares-state-of-emergency-amid-extreme-heat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California declares state of emergency amid extreme heat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[803,804,806,807,808,805],"class_list":["post-6646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","tag-california","tag-declares","tag-emergency","tag-extreme","tag-heat","tag-state","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}