{"id":409719,"date":"2026-07-23T18:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409719\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T18:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:19:23","slug":"california-highway-closed-as-crews-fight-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409719\/","title":{"rendered":"California Highway Closed as Crews Fight Wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Parts of Highway 395 were closed near Bishop, California, as crews tended to a vegetation fire on July 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage uploaded to Facebook by the Big Pine Volunteer Fire Department shows a helicopter dropping water along the roadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials <a data-ylk=\"slk:closed Highway 395;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CALFIREBDU\/status\/2080063227573191151?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">closed Highway 395<\/a> in both directions while ground crews assisted in suppression efforts, and said the fire had &#8220;potential for 15 acres.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The vegetation fire occurred as the nearby <a data-ylk=\"slk:Rock Fire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2026\/7\/20\/rock-fire\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Rock Fire<\/a> burned more than 11,000 acres. Credit: Big Pine Volunteer Fire Department via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parts of Highway 395 were closed near Bishop, California, as crews tended to a vegetation fire on July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29669,7,9,8,164195,36005,16914,164194],"class_list":["post-409719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-bishop","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-ground-crews","tag-highway-395","tag-vegetation-fire","tag-volunteer-fire-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409719","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=409719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}