{"id":283401,"date":"2026-04-24T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/283401\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:00:21","slug":"the-smoke-from-the-fresno-county-foothills-is-not-only-coming-from-the-prescribed-burn-cbs47-and-ksee24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/283401\/","title":{"rendered":"The smoke from the Fresno County foothills is not only coming from the prescribed burn | CBS47 and KSEE24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">KSEE\/KGPE<\/a>) \u2013\u00a0Earlier this week, the U.S. Forest Service asked people not to dial  911 if they saw smoke coming from the Fresno County foothills \u2013 but they didn\u2019t expect a wildfire to start in the same area.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday evening, the Hog Fire ignited just north of Pine Flat Lake. The county\u2019s supervisor, Nathan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1437569764836444&amp;set=a.319394926653939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Magsig, reported it had grown<\/a> to 15 acres by 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The new fire is about 20 miles south of Camp Sierra, where the U.S. Forest Service resumed prescribed burn operations on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"720\" width=\"1167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image_82bf7b.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2715876\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>At the time, the USFS said smoke and fire would be visible from a large area around the Big Creek Drainage and that \u201cthere is no need to dial 911 as safety personnel will be on scene monitoring fire activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>YourCentralValley.com reached out to ask what, if any, impact the prescribed burn had on the Hog Fire and its response time. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE\/KGPE) \u2013\u00a0Earlier this week, the U.S. Forest Service asked people not to dial 911 if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-283401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}