{"id":860272,"date":"2020-03-17T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=860272"},"modified":"2020-03-18T14:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T19:30:05","slug":"smith-county-issues-disaster-declaration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=860272","title":{"rendered":"Disaster Declaration Ratified by Commissioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/03\/636685463251700000-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-860279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/03\/636685463251700000-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/03\/636685463251700000-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/03\/636685463251700000-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/03\/636685463251700000.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; On Tuesday, the Smith County Commissioners Court ratified the Declaration of Local Disaster Due to Public Health Emergency from the Coronavirus, signed by County Judge Nathaniel Moran on Monday. Judge Moran told KTBB on Tuesday \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The continued spread of COVID-19 presents an imminent threat of widespread illness, which requires emergency action for the protection of the people of Smith County.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The implementation of mitigation strategies can slow the transmission of the disease.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The World Health Organization has declared Coronavirus (COVID-19) as a global pandemic. The disaster declaration activates Smith County\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Emergency Management Plan and will remain in effect for no more than seven days unless continued or renewed by the Commissioners Court. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; On Tuesday, the Smith County Commissioners Court ratified the Declaration of Local Disaster Due to Public Health Emergency from the Coronavirus, signed by County Judge Nathaniel Moran on Monday. Judge Moran told KTBB on Tuesday \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The continued spread of COVID-19 presents an imminent threat of widespread illness, which requires emergency action for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=860272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disaster Declaration Ratified by Commissioners<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":860279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 03:37:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860272","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=860272"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860575,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860272\/revisions\/860575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/860279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}