{"id":413708,"date":"2026-07-27T11:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413708\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:14:13","slug":"california-secures-federal-assistance-to-support-response-to-dove-fire-in-tuolumne-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413708\/","title":{"rendered":"California secures federal assistance to support response to Dove Fire in Tuolumne County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fast-moving Dove Fire ignited on July 26, 2026, just after 2:30 PM near Highway 108 and Stockton Street in Tuolumne County. More than\u00a0<a id=\"OWA8555fe89-e7df-705a-b5c4-1504105d2168\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2026\/7\/26\/dove-fire\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2026\/7\/26\/dove-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">223 acres<\/a>\u00a0have burned, threatening several communities, including the towns of Sonora and Jefferson \u2014 forcing the evacuation of more than 600 homes and putting an additional 1,400 under evacuation warnings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fire Management Assistance Grant is an important tool that helps ensure local and state agencies responding to fast-moving wildfires have the resources needed to keep communities safe,\u201d\u00a0said Cal OES Director Caroline Thomas Jacobs. \u201cCal OES remains in close coordination with local emergency managers in Tuolumne County and CALFIRE to support response operations and help ensure communities receive the resources they need throughout this incident.<\/p>\n<p>How the grant works<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/disaster\/declarations?field_dv2_declaration_date_value%5Bmin%5D=2026&amp;field_dv2_declaration_date_value%5Bmax%5D=2026&amp;field_dv2_declaration_type_value=FM&amp;field_dv2_incident_type_target_id_selective=All&amp;field_dv2_state_territory_tribal_value%5B%5D=CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FMAG<\/a>, which is provided through FEMA on a cost-share basis, will assist local, state, and tribal agencies responding to the fire to apply for 75% reimbursement of their eligible fire suppression costs.<\/p>\n<p>Get prepared, stay ready<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Residents are urged to stay vigilant during this heightened heat and fire weather period. Californians are reminded to:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fast-moving Dove Fire ignited on July 26, 2026, just after 2:30 PM near Highway 108 and Stockton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-413708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413708","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=413708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}