{"id":73661,"date":"2026-05-17T17:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/minnesota-deploys-national-guard-to-help-fight-wildfires-in-northern-region\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:48:17","slug":"minnesota-deploys-national-guard-to-help-fight-wildfires-in-northern-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/minnesota-deploys-national-guard-to-help-fight-wildfires-in-northern-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota deploys national guard to help fight wildfires in northern region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Walz, the state\u2019s governor, calls blazes \u2018unpredictable and fast-moving\u2019 as dry, windy weather fuels them<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/minnesota\">Minnesota<\/a>\u2019s national guard has been activated to help battle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-wildfires\">wildfires<\/a> burning in the northern part of the state after the department of natural resources requested additional support.<\/p>\n<p>Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/tim-walz\">Tim Walz<\/a> authorized the deployment by issuing an executive order that declared a peacetime emergency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/17\/minnesota-national-guard-wildfires\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Walz, the state\u2019s governor, calls blazes \u2018unpredictable and fast-moving\u2019 as dry, windy weather fuels them Minnesota\u2019s national guard has been activated to help battle wildfires burning in the northern part of the state after the department of natural resources requested additional support. Governor Tim Walz authorized the deployment by issuing an executive order that &#8230; <a title=\"Minnesota deploys national guard to help fight wildfires in northern region\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/minnesota-deploys-national-guard-to-help-fight-wildfires-in-northern-region\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Minnesota deploys national guard to help fight wildfires in northern region\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}