{"id":397415,"date":"2026-07-14T02:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/397415\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T02:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:32:19","slug":"elephant-fire-grows-to-more-than-12000-acres-as-it-burns-in-3-california-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/397415\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Fire grows to more than 12,000 acres as it burns in 3 California counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LOYALTON, Calif. (KOLO) &#8211; The Elephant Fire started Saturday afternoon northeast of the town of Loyalton and spread quickly, U.S. Forest Service spokesperson Chris Buckley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Buckley said crews are facing several challenges as the fire burns into steep, rugged terrain\u2014making it harder to contain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe fuels\u2026 are very, very dry, the terrain very extreme, very steep, and then we\u2019ve had some winds,\u201d Buckley said, adding weather conditions\u2014including the potential for dry lightning\u2014could also factor into fire activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Buckley said this isn\u2019t the first major fire to burn in the area this decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThere was a similar fire here\u2026 in 2020,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of burning along the same scar as that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The fire has burned more than 12,300 acres and is 5% contained as of Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The fire is burning in Sierra, Plumas and Lassen counties. In Lassen County, evacuation warnings have been issued for the areas around the fire but mandatory evacuations have been dropped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Residents are urged to monitor official updates and follow evacuation instructions from local emergency managers.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KOLO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOYALTON, Calif. (KOLO) &#8211; The Elephant Fire started Saturday afternoon northeast of the town of Loyalton and spread&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,12659,7,9,8,47505,17825,47503,47504,47506,47502],"class_list":["post-397415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-video-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397415","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=397415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}