{"id":410743,"date":"2026-07-24T13:02:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410743\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:02:30","slug":"rock-fire-burning-in-inyo-county-forces-partial-closure-of-inyo-national-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410743\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rock Fire&#8217; burning in Inyo County forces partial closure of Inyo National Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Rock Fire, which has already burned over 10,000 acres in Inyo County, has forced a partial closure of the Inyo National Forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The U.S. Forest Service announced the closure Wednesday to &#8220;provide for public safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The closure affects roads and areas around the Rock Fire, including recreational sites such as Sawmill Pass, Red Lake, Taboose Pass and Birch Lake trails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Below is a map provided by the USFS of the closed areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-centertext EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">(<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/sites\/nfs\/files\/r05\/inyo\/publication\/alerts\/RockFire_ForestClosure_map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click\/tap here to see document in new window<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Rock Fire, which started Monday night, has burned 11,645 acres and firefighters have contained 20% of the blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials say the partial closure of the Inyo National Forest will be in effect until the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Rock Fire, which has already burned over 10,000 acres in Inyo County, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[164528,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-410743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-164528","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410743","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=410743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}