{"id":411465,"date":"2026-07-25T00:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411465\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T00:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:52:14","slug":"evacuation-orders-issued-as-fields-fire-burns-in-merced-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411465\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuation orders issued as &#8216;Fields Fire&#8217; burns in Merced County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; New evacuation orders are in place as the so-called Fields Fire burning in Merced County has picked up again on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Merced County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says 15 residents are impacted by the fire from Merced Falls Road and Hornitos Road, west of the Kelsey Reservoir. All in the area are urged to leave now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Deputies are going door to door to help evacuate residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">An emergency shelter has been established at the First Baptist Church of Snelling on Highway 59 near Montgomery Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to CAL FIRE, the Fields Fire has burned 1,100 acres off La Grange and Fields roads near Snelling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The flames broke out just before 2 p.m. Thursday, quickly spreading in the dry grass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">131 firefighters are working to put out the flames, which are now 40 percent contained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Merced Falls Road remains closed from La Grange to Hornitos Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Power has been restored to all previously impacted residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Stay with ABC30 for the latest details on this developing story.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; New evacuation orders are in place as the so-called Fields Fire burning in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[164777,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-411465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-164777","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411465","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=411465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}