{"id":194148,"date":"2025-07-30T17:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=194148"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:38:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:38:01","slug":"stanislaus-national-forest-crews-responded-to-multiple-fires-after-289-lightning-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=194148","title":{"rendered":"Stanislaus National Forest Crews Responded to Multiple Fires After 289 Lightning Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonora, CA&#8230;Firefighting crews from the Stanislaus National Forest are currently responding to two confirmed wildfires as well as two smoke checks\/possible fires. In the last 24 hours, there have been 289 lightning strikes with 72 confirmed ground contacts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/usfslogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/usfslogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/usfslogo.jpg 200w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/usfslogo-150x169.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently Responding<\/p>\n<p>Kitchen Fire &#8211; west of Union Reservoir, fire is sized up at 30 ft x 30 ft burning in timber and brush, one-foot flame lengths with slow rate of spread.<\/p>\n<p>Trout Fire \u2013 off of Forest Service Road 3n20, North of Hull Creek\/Trout Creek OHV area, sized up by Helicopter 517 as a 30 ft x 30 ft grid, smoldering with no active flames.<\/p>\n<p>Resources In-Route<\/p>\n<p>Dry Fire \u2013 initially reported by the Mount Elizabeth lookout, described as small white column with a slow rate of spread. Located on a ridgeline above Dry Meadow, near the Stanislaus National Forest Dry Meadow Fire Station.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher Fire \u2013 initially reported by the Mount Elizabeth lookout and in similar location to Dry Fire. Resources in route to make initial size up.<\/p>\n<p>With the recent lightning storms and new storms predicted, the possibility for additional fires remains elevated and the forest will remain vigilant in their detection and suppression.<\/p>\n<p>Any questions or concerns should be directed to Forest Public Affairs Officer, Benjamin Cossel: benjamin.cossel@usda.gov or 209.288.6261.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonora, CA&#8230;Firefighting crews from the Stanislaus National Forest are currently responding to two confirmed wildfires as well as two smoke checks\/possible fires. In the last 24 hours, there have been 289 lightning strikes with 72 confirmed ground contacts. Currently Responding Kitchen Fire &#8211; west of Union Reservoir, fire is sized up at 30 ft x [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8368,"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":[20,1,13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-traffic-fire","category-tuolumne-county","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/usfslogo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194148","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=194148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194149,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194148\/revisions\/194149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}