{"id":918449,"date":"2020-08-27T11:57:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=918449"},"modified":"2020-08-28T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T16:57:00","slug":"smith-county-city-of-tyler-remind-residents-to-only-use-9-1-1-for-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=918449","title":{"rendered":"Smith County, City of Tyler remind residents to only use 9-1-1 for emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/08\/Tyler-Smith-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-918457\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/08\/Smith-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-918456\" \/>TYLER &#8212; While, heavy wind and rain did not impact the Tyler area as a result of Hurricane Laura, Smith County and the City of Tyler are reminding residents during and after a storm, to only contact 9-1-1 for in-progress emergencies requiring police, fire or medical assistance. Leaders say that  It is critical to keep  emergency call centers from being overloaded with non-emergency calls during a storm. Non-emergency calls can delay residents with real life-threatening emergencies to get proper needed responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; While, heavy wind and rain did not impact the Tyler area as a result of Hurricane Laura, Smith County and the City of Tyler are reminding residents during and after a storm, to only contact 9-1-1 for in-progress emergencies requiring police, fire or medical assistance. Leaders say that It is critical to keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=918449\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County, City of Tyler remind residents to only use 9-1-1 for emergencies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"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-918449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 03:58:39","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\/918449","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=918449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918458,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918449\/revisions\/918458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}