{"id":321865,"date":"2026-08-15T04:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321865\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T04:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:02:07","slug":"three-queens-fire-in-kittitas-county-leads-to-several-closures-as-poor-air-quality-persists-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321865\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Queens Fire in Kittitas County leads to several closures as poor air quality persists | Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Three Queens Fire in Kittitas County has now burned roughly 3,600 acres and still remains 0% contained, according to Forest Service.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say that the fire was caused by a lightning strike on Jul. 15 and has grown exponentially since.<\/p>\n<p>The fire has caused several closures across the county, including the Kittitas Valley Memorial Pool, which temporarily closed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>For a full closure map, visit the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/r06\/okanogan-wenatchee\/alerts\/three-queens-fire-area-closure-cle-elum-ranger-district?fbclid=Iwb21leATpVvpjbGNrBOlWlHBkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeqnYC303TwkuNJHjC2FSc1zDUTYmzkV8SNetyKwo2d5hT5xOTYIjaHQgN0L8_aem_RkGdbaT0B3JB48EigpK9Qw.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Three Queens Fire in Kittitas County has now burned roughly 3,600 acres and still remains 0% contained,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1106,610,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,121305],"class_list":["post-321865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-features","tag-local","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-yakima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}