{"id":1047663,"date":"2021-08-17T13:40:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T18:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1047663"},"modified":"2021-08-18T13:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T18:40:04","slug":"smith-county-certified-as-stormready-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1047663","title":{"rendered":"Smith County certified as StormReady county"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/2021-08-17_133250-175x73.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"73\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1047664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/2021-08-17_133250-175x73.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/2021-08-17_133250.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Smith County is now officially a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153StormReady\u00e2\u20ac\u009d County. National Weather Service Senior Meteorologist Jason Hansford, who is based out of the Shreveport office, presented the recognition to the Smith County Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office\/Office of Emergency Management during Commissioners Court on Tuesday.  Hansford says the StormReady designation aims at ramping up community awareness of severe weather preparedness. He says the designation tells the community that everything is in place to handle inclement weather in the county. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You have been one of the more proactive emergency managers we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever worked with,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he added, referring to Smith County Fire Marshal Jay Brooks.  Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smith-county.com\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/644\/97\">here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Smith County is now officially a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153StormReady\u00e2\u20ac\u009d County. National Weather Service Senior Meteorologist Jason Hansford, who is based out of the Shreveport office, presented the recognition to the Smith County Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office\/Office of Emergency Management during Commissioners Court on Tuesday. Hansford says the StormReady designation aims at ramping up community awareness of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1047663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County certified as StormReady county<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1047677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/2021-08-17_133250-175x73.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County certified as StormReady county","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 23:59:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/2021-08-17_133250-175x73.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County certified as StormReady county","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1047663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047669,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047663\/revisions\/1047669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1047677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1047663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1047663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1047663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}