{"id":463083,"date":"2026-09-14T04:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463083\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T04:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:04:10","slug":"northern-california-wildfire-expands-to-more-than-4000-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463083\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern California wildfire expands to more than 4,000 acres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lucas Fire in Northern California has burned 4,008 acres in Lake and Mendocino counties, state fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2026\/9\/10\/lucas-fire\/updates\/9b776134-4ec1-401c-9a16-8b1a43029e29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">update posted<\/a> at 7 a.m. Sunday reported that the blaze, which began Thursday near the county line, has reached 20% containment, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remained under investigation, according to Cal Fire.<\/p>\n<p>Evacuations have been ordered in both counties and evacuation warnings also have been issued.<\/p>\n<p>An evacuation center and animal evacuation center have been set up at the Lake County Fairgrounds at 401 Martin St. in Lakeport, Cal Fire said<\/p>\n<p>Part of the Mendocino National Forest has been closed, as have several sections of Highway 20.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 fire engines, 35 water tenders, 50 hand crews and 17 helicopters are battling the wildfire, Cal Fire said. Nearly 1,300 personnel are involved in the effort.<\/p>\n<p>A red flag warning is in effect for Lake County from Saturday through Monday, according to Cal Fire, as warmer temperatures, low humidity and strong winds increased wildfire danger<\/p>\n<p>____<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lucas Fire in Northern California has burned 4,008 acres in Lake and Mendocino counties, state fire officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-463083","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\/463083","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=463083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}