{"id":379760,"date":"2010-03-02T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T15:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/sirens-set-to-sound-in-illinois-today"},"modified":"2010-03-02T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T15:27:21","slug":"sirens-set-to-sound-in-illinois-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/379760","title":{"rendered":"Sirens set to sound in Illinois today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 10 a.m. today, warning sirens will wail in Illinois as part of the annual Illinois tornado drill.<\/p>\n<p>The annual drill is an effort to get people to prepare for the severe weather season ahead and have a plan in the event severe weather threatens.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Illinois reported 52 tornadoes and the state ranks fifth in the nation in frequency of tornadoes per square mile. Fortunately, there were no fatalities with the tornadoes, but 27 injuries were reported with the 52 tornadoes.\t<span id=\"more-21710\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is severe weather awareness week in Illinois.  Last year, four flood related deaths and one death from severe thunderstorms were reported.  Tornadoes, damaging winds, flash floods, large hail and deadly lightning strike Illinois every year.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from the <a title=\"Sirens set to sound in Illinois today\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bnd.com\/2010\/03\/02\/1155917\/sirens-set-to-sound-in-illinois.html\"  rel='nofollow'>Belleville News-Democrat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/PMM9aXOaYFzdLfaHFN77StG8_zY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/PMM9aXOaYFzdLfaHFN77StG8_zY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/PMM9aXOaYFzdLfaHFN77StG8_zY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/PMM9aXOaYFzdLfaHFN77StG8_zY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=Z5f-dWV-ciM:GcDB8FxfzC0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=Z5f-dWV-ciM:GcDB8FxfzC0:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=Z5f-dWV-ciM:GcDB8FxfzC0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=Z5f-dWV-ciM:GcDB8FxfzC0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/Z5f-dWV-ciM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 10 a.m. today, warning sirens will wail in Illinois as part of the annual Illinois tornado drill. The annual drill is an effort to get people to prepare for the severe weather season ahead and have a plan in the event severe weather threatens. In 2009, Illinois reported 52 tornadoes and the state ranks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}