{"id":134530,"date":"2024-09-29T10:52:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T00:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/maxwell-air-force-base-supporting-hurricane-helene-relief-efforts\/"},"modified":"2024-09-29T10:52:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T00:52:24","slug":"how-maxwell-air-force-base-is-supporting-hurricane-helene-relief-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=134530","title":{"rendered":"How Maxwell Air Force Base Is Supporting Hurricane Helene Relief Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Helene has struck across the Southwest United States and has left millions without power and at least 56 people dead, according to reporting by the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-florida-georgia-north-carolina-south-carolina-92d5caaafe40644e1db687cf6431395f\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Associated Press<\/a>. Helene arrived at Florida&#8217;s Big Bend region as a Category 4             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"61200\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/hurricane\/\"  >hurricane<\/a><\/span> late Thursday with winds of 140 mph. As the hurricane barreled toward the US, Maxwell Air Force Base <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxwell.af.mil\/News\/Display\/Article\/3917716\/fema-prepares-for-hurricane-helenes-landfall-stands-up-incident-support-base-at\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >reported<\/a> it was preparing for the tempest. NOAA and the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> have been monitoring this and other hurricanes with their Hurricane Hunters (        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2030892\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/hurricane-hunters-fleet-hurricane-ernesto\/\" >like they did with Hurricane Ernesto in August<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force worked with FEMA to prepare for Helene in addition to monitoring the storm&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1258,396,11152,412,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-hurricane","category-military","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134531,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134530\/revisions\/134531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}