{"id":124493,"date":"2021-07-06T14:56:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T21:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=124493"},"modified":"2021-07-06T17:11:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T00:11:03","slug":"yosemite-national-park-fire-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=124493","title":{"rendered":"Yosemite National Park Fire Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yosemite National Park, CA&#8230;On Monday June 28, 2021 through July 2, thunderstorms developed over Yosemite National Park creating lightning that ignited 16 fires. Fire managers have been assessing all fires for an appropriate response. Due to the risk of visitor safety and park values the King Fire is being suppressed in the Illilouette Creek drainage and is being controlled by hand crews and helicopters. Four fires, Harden, Pothole and Ridge are out, the remaining fires are burning in high elevation areas located in wilderness ranging from 7,000 to 9,700 feet. The weather is forecasted to be hot and dry through next week with record temperatures throughout the region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailytide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/halfdome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10300\" src=\"https:\/\/dailytide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/halfdome-e1625608208714.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yosemite National Park is a fire adapted ecosystem. The overall strategy for managing all wildland fires is to provide for the safety of employees and public, as well as protect and enhance natural and cultural resources.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>King<br \/>\nLocation: South of Nevada Falls, north of Mount Starr King. 7220 elevation.<br \/>\nDiscovery Date: June 29, 2021 Size: 10 acres<br \/>\nContainment: 50% Strategy: Suppression<br \/>\nCause: Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Quartzite<br \/>\nLocation: West of Quartzsite Peak. 8781 elevation.<br \/>\nDiscovery Date: June 29, 2021 Size: .30 acre<br \/>\nContainment: 0% Strategy: Monitor<br \/>\nCause: Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Harden<br \/>\nLocation: North of Harden Lake, south of Hetch Hetchy. 6665 feet elevation.<br \/>\nDiscovery Date: July 1, 2021 Size: .25 acre<br \/>\nContainment: Out 7\/4\/2021 Strategy: Suppression<br \/>\nCause: Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Stubblefield<br \/>\nLocation: Northern end of Yosemite NP, near Stubblefield and Kerrick canyons. 8000 elevation.<br \/>\nDiscovery Date: June 28, 2021 Size: .1 acre<br \/>\nContainment: 0% Strategy: Monitor<br \/>\nCause: Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Porcupine<br \/>\nLocation: Northeast of Porcupine Campground, and Tioga Road. 8210 elevation.<br \/>\nDiscovery Date: June 28, 2021 Size: .10 acres<br \/>\nContainment: 0% Strategy: Monitor<br \/>\nCause: Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Coyote<br \/>\nLocation: Coyote Rocks, north of Tioga Road. 9742 elevation.<br \/>\nDiscovery Date: June 28, 2021 Size: .1 acre<\/p>\n<p>Containment: 0% Strategy: Monitor<br \/>\nCause: Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Hidden<br \/>\nLocation: Northwest of Olmsted Point, Tioga Road. 9017 elevation.<br \/>\nDiscovery Date: June 28, 2021 Size: .1 acre<br \/>\nContainment: 0% Strategy: Monitor<br \/>\nCause: Lightning<\/p>\n<p>County Line<br \/>\nLocation: Near Yosemite Creek Campground Road. 8361 elevation.<br \/>\nDiscovery Date: June 28, 2021 Size: .6 acres<br \/>\nContainment: 0% Strategy: Confine and Contain<br \/>\nCause: Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Lukens<br \/>\nLocation: West of Lukens Lake, North of Tioga Road. 8243 elevation.<br \/>\nDiscovery Date: June 28, 2021 Size: .2 acre<br \/>\nContainment: 0% Strategy: Confine and Contain<br \/>\nCause: Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Wegner<br \/>\nLocation: East of Yosemite Creek Picnic Area and east of Tioga Road. 8256 elevation.<br \/>\nDiscovery Date: June 28, 2021 Size: .25 acre<br \/>\nContainment: 0% Strategy: Monitor<br \/>\nCause: Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Half Moon<br \/>\nLocation: West of Ten Lakes near Half Moon Meadow. 8256 elevation.<br \/>\nDiscovery Date: June 28, 2021 Size: .1 acre<\/p>\n<p>Containment: 0% Strategy: Monitor<br \/>\nCause: Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Pothole<br \/>\nLocation: South of Glacier Point Road. 7885 elevation.<br \/>\nDiscovery Date: June 28, 2021 Size: .1 acre<br \/>\nContainment: Out 7\/4\/2021 Strategy: Suppressed<br \/>\nCause: Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Fork<br \/>\nLocation: 1 mile southeast of Mt. Starr King. 8500 elevation.<br \/>\nDiscovery Date: June 28, 2021 Size: .3 acres<br \/>\nContainment: 0% Strategy: Confine and Contain<br \/>\nCause: Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Ridge<br \/>\nLocation: South of Glacier Point Road, across from Sentinel Parking area. 8000 elevation.<br \/>\nDiscovery Date: July 3, 2021 Size: .10 acre<br \/>\nContainment: Out 7\/4\/2021 Strategy: Confine and Contain<br \/>\nCause: Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Lake<br \/>\nLocation: West slope of Mt Hoffman. 9000 elevation.<br \/>\nDiscovery Date: July 3, 2021 Size: .10 acre<br \/>\nContainment: 0% Strategy: Confine and Contain<br \/>\nCause: Lightning<\/p>\n<p>For the most up-to-date fire information follow Inciweb: KING: <a href=\"https:\/\/inciweb.nwcg.gov\/incident\/7593\/\">https:\/\/inciweb.nwcg.gov\/incident\/7593\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yosemite National Park, CA&#8230;On Monday June 28, 2021 through July 2, thunderstorms developed over Yosemite National Park creating lightning that ignited 16 fires. Fire managers have been assessing all fires for an appropriate response. Due to the risk of visitor safety and park values the King Fire is being suppressed in the Illilouette Creek drainage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":124496,"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":[20,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-traffic-fire","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/halfdome-e1625607909566.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124493","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\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}