{"id":8951,"date":"2026-05-12T20:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=8951"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:25:04","slug":"wildfire-ready-protecting-your-home-family-community","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/events\/wildfire-ready-protecting-your-home-family-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire Ready: Protecting Your Home, Family &#038; Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Saturday, May 23, at 3:30pm, at the West Tisbury Free Public Library, join Jennelle Gadowski of the West Tisbury Emergency Management Department for the next event in our monthly series, \u201cReady Together: Community Preparedness.\u201d All are welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May is National Wildfire Awareness Month, and communities like West Tisbury face wildfire risk due to wooded areas, dry conditions, and rural landscapes\u2014including the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest. Join West Tisbury Emergency Management for an informative community presentation focused on wildfire awareness, prevention, and preparedness. Topics will include reducing wildfire risk around your home, defensible space, outdoor burning safety, evacuation planning, emergency alerts, go-bags, and what to do during a wildfire emergency. This session includes practical safety tips, preparedness resources, and interactive discussion to help residents stay safe and ready.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, May 23, at 3:30pm, at the West Tisbury Free Public Library, join Jennelle Gadowski of the West Tisbury Emergency Management Department for the next event in our monthly series, \u201cReady Together: Community Preparedness.\u201d All are welcome. May is National Wildfire Awareness Month, and communities like West Tisbury face wildfire risk due to wooded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-8951","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/8951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=8951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}