{"id":28480,"date":"2024-06-16T03:51:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T08:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=28480"},"modified":"2024-06-16T03:51:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T08:51:53","slug":"wildfire-north-of-los-angeles-spreads-as-authorities-evacuate-1200-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=28480","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire north of Los Angeles spreads as authorities evacuate 1,200 people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">GORMAN, Calif. &#8212;&nbsp;Authorities evacuated at least 1,200 people Saturday as a wildfire in Los Angeles County spread over thousands of acres near a major highway and threatened nearby structures, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The blaze being called the Post Fire burned more than 3,600 acres (5.6 square miles or 14.5 square kilometers) near the Interstate 5 freeway in Gorman, about 62 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">California State Park Services evacuated 1,200 people from the Hungry Valley recreation area in Gorman and both Hungry Valley and the Pyramid Lake reservoir were closed as a result of the fire threat, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said in an 8 p.m. update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The flames broke out at around 1:45 p.m., authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The fire was moving southeast toward Pyramid Lake and crews were constructing perimeter fire lines while aircraft worked against limited visibility to stop the fire&#8217;s progress, the fire department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/wildfire-north-los-angeles-spreads-authorities-issue-evacuation-111160555\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GORMAN, Calif. &#8212;&nbsp;Authorities evacuated at least 1,200 people Saturday as a wildfire in Los Angeles County spread over thousands of acres near a major highway and threatened nearby structures, officials said. The blaze being called the Post Fire burned more than 3,600 acres (5.6 square miles or 14.5 square kilometers) near the Interstate 5 freeway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[29067,29066],"class_list":["post-28480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-authorities-evacuate-1","tag-wildfire-spreads-north-of-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28482,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28480\/revisions\/28482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}