{"id":395281,"date":"2026-07-12T02:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395281\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T02:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:34:08","slug":"elephant-fire-east-of-loyalton-grows-to-2300-acres-california-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395281\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Fire east of Loyalton grows to 2,300 acres | California News"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 11 6:30 p.m. UPDATE:\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to CAL FIRE, the Elephant Fire is now 5 percent contained and has burned an estimated 2,300 acres.<\/p>\n

According to the Forest Service,\u00a0the Fire ignited near Highway 49, northeast of Loyalton, Calif. near the Sierra and Plumas County line.<\/p>\n

It is burning primarily in grass, brush and timber. The fire is moving through the 2020 Loyalton Fire scar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Firefighters are using a combination of direct suppression tactics, including bulldozers to construct fire lines, while aircraft are applying fire retardant and dropping buckets of water to slow the spread.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An evacuation order remains in effect, see the evacuation map here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

July 11 4:30 P.M. UPDATE:<\/p>\n

U.S. Forest Service fire crews, the Loyalton Fire Department and other agencies are responding to a wildfire burning east of Loyalton, California in Sierra and Plumas Counties.<\/p>\n

The official Cal-Fire incident page<\/a> says the Elephant Fire has burned an estimated 2,157 acres since starting just after 1 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n

An Evacuation Order has been issued in Lassen County for for Zone: LAS-451-A near Highway 49 and Dotta Lane.<\/p>\n

See an evacuation\u00a0map here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 11 6:30 p.m. UPDATE:\u00a0 According to CAL FIRE, the Elephant Fire is now 5 percent contained and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,108960,158920,9,8,74750,3802,175,133078,158864,158921,72544,3000,535],"class_list":["post-395281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-counties","tag-california-department-of-forestry-and-fire-protection","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-environment-of-california","tag-fire","tag-fires","tag-lassen-county","tag-loyalton","tag-loyalton-fire","tag-united-states-forest-service","tag-wildfire","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395281","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=395281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}