{"id":10034,"date":"2015-09-10T01:13:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T08:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=10034"},"modified":"2016-04-29T17:33:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T00:33:32","slug":"butte-fire-surges-to-2600-acres-42-engines-4-water-tenders-12-fire-crews-3-helicopters-14-bulldozers-6-air-tankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=10034","title":{"rendered":"Butte Fire Explodes To 2,600 Acres, 42 Engines, 4 Water Tenders, 12 Fire Crews, 3 Helicopters, 14 Bulldozers, 6 Air Tankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson\/Mokelumne Hill, CA&#8230;Fire is burning in the Mokelumne River drainage as well as south of hwy 26 towards the Calaveras River Drainage. Fire is burning in multiple directions due to local wind patterns and topography. Amador- El Dorado CAL FIRE is being assisted by the Sacramento Regional Type III Incident Management Team. A CAL FIRE Type I incident management team has been ordered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Fullscreen-capture-9102015-64540-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Fullscreen-capture-9102015-64540-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Fullscreen capture 9102015 64540 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Fullscreen-capture-9102015-64540-AM.jpg 640w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Fullscreen-capture-9102015-64540-AM-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Fullscreen-capture-9102015-64540-AM-123x70.jpg 123w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Fullscreen-capture-9102015-64540-AM-570x322.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Butte-Fire-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Butte-Fire-1.jpg\" alt=\"Butte Fire 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"471\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Butte-Fire-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Butte-Fire-1-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Butte-Fire-1-119x89.jpg 119w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Butte-Fire-1-124x90.jpg 124w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Butte-Fire-1-570x419.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Butte-Fire-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Butte-Fire-2.jpg\" alt=\"Butte Fire 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"435\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Butte-Fire-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Butte-Fire-2-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Butte-Fire-2-570x387.jpg 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Butte-Fire-2-80x55.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of photos I took early evening tonight along our ranch.  Butte Fire 1 is looking north from Esmeralda Road in Murphys; Butte Fire 2 is looking north on Sheep Ranch Road in Murphys near Mercer Caverns. Best, Michele Rugo<\/p>\n<p>Evacuations: Canyon View, Fig Tree Ln, and Ponderosa Way (Amador) Boston Yale Subdivision from East SR26 to Ponderosa (Calaveras)\u00a0 Evacuation centers: Mokelumne Hill Elementary School, San Andreas Town Hall for overnight needs<br \/>\nRoad Closures: Clinton Rd at Butte Mountain Rd (Both ends) Butte Mountain Rd Cutoff at Clinton Rd.<br \/>\nAmador Ln at Clinton Rd, SR49 at Electra, Ponderosa Rd. at Tabeau, Access to Lake Tabeau is closed (Amador) SR26 and Hwy 49 at Mokelumne Hill East to Ridge Rd (Calaveras)<\/p>\n<p>Cooperating Agencies<br \/>\nJackson City, Sutter Creek, Amador Fire Protection District, Diamond Springs, USFS, CHP, Calaveras County Sheriffs, Amador County Sheriffs, BLM, PG&amp;E, Calaveras PUD, OES<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CAL FIRE<br \/>\nAmador- El Dorado Unit<br \/>\nINCIDENT FACT SHEET<br \/>\nIncident Name: Butte<br \/>\nType of Incident: Fire, Wildland<br \/>\nIncident Address: 17704 Butte Mountain Rd<br \/>\nCommunity: Jackson City<br \/>\nIncident Report Date: 9\/9\/15<br \/>\nAcres: 2600<br \/>\nIncident Report Time: 2:25pm<br \/>\n30% Contained<br \/>\nResources Assigned<br \/>\nEngines: 42<br \/>\nWater Tenders: 4<br \/>\nFire Crews: 12<br \/>\nHelicopters: 3<br \/>\nBulldozers: 14<br \/>\nAir Tankers: 6<br \/>\nCurrent Situation<br \/>\nFire is burning in the Mokelumne River drainage as well as south of hwy 26 towards the Calaveras River Drainage. Fire is burning in multiple directions due to local wind patterns and topography. Amador- El Dorado CAL FIRE is being assisted by the Sacramento Regional Type III Incident Management Team. A CAL FIRE Type I incident management team has been ordered.<br \/>\nEvacuations: Canyon View, Fig Tree Ln, and Ponderosa Way (Amador) Boston Yale Subdivision from East SR26 to Ponderosa (Calaveras)<br \/>\nEvacuation centers: Mokelumne Hill Elementary School, San Andreas Town Hall for overnight needs<br \/>\nRoad Closures: Clinton Rd at Butte Mountain Rd (Both ends) Butte Mountain Rd Cutoff at Clinton Rd.<br \/>\nAmador Ln at Clinton Rd, SR49 at Electra, Ponderosa Rd. at Tabeau, Access to Lake Tabeau is closed (Amador) SR26 and Hwy 49 at Mokelumne Hill East to Ridge Rd (Calaveras) Cooperating Agencies<br \/>\nJackson City, Sutter Creek, Amador Fire Protection District, Diamond Springs, USFS, CHP, Calaveras County Sheriffs, Amador County Sheriffs, BLM, PG&amp;E, Calaveras PUD, OES<br \/>\nPrepared By: Brice Bennett Date\/Time Prepared: 9\/10\/15 12:00am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson\/Mokelumne Hill, CA&#8230;Fire is burning in the Mokelumne River drainage as well as south of hwy 26 towards the Calaveras River Drainage. Fire is burning in multiple directions due to local wind patterns and topography. Amador- El Dorado CAL FIRE is being assisted by the Sacramento Regional Type III Incident Management Team. A CAL FIRE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,20,35,14,1,13,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amador-county","category-featured","category-fire-news","category-mokelumne-hill","category-news","category-traffic-fire","category-west-point","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Butte-Fire-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}