{"id":410751,"date":"2026-07-24T13:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410751\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:15:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:15:31","slug":"do-you-smell-that-smoke-from-merced-county-fields-fire-drifting-into-fresno-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410751\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you smell that? Smoke from Merced County &#8216;Fields Fire&#8217; drifting into Fresno County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CENTRAL VALLEY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Residents across the Central Valley may notice the smell of smoke Friday morning as the Fields Fire in Merced County continues to burn.<\/p>\n<p><p>FOX26 Justin Willis explains smoke conditions due to Fields Fire (FOX26)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The fire started on Wednesday afternoon just north of Merced, near La Grange Road and Merced Falls Road, and has burned more than 1,100 acres.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday morning, the fire is 40% contained.<\/p>\n<p><p>Fields Fire burning in Merced County (Courtesy: AlertCalifornia\/UC San Diego\/ PG&amp;E)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Officials say evacuation warnings have been lifted after briefly being issued on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Fire crews remain on scene strengthening containment lines, and smoke may continue to drift into surrounding communities as firefighting efforts continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CENTRAL VALLEY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Residents across the Central Valley may notice the smell of smoke Friday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-410751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410751","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=410751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}