{"id":324391,"date":"2026-11-09T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324391\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:00:12","slug":"heres-why-smoke-can-be-seen-in-the-erie-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324391\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s why smoke can be seen in the Erie area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That smoke in the Erie area near Colorado 52 and East County Line Road is a prescribed burn, and there is no reason to worry, officials say.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Boulder County Sheriff\u2019s Office Fire Management Team is conducting the prescribed burn, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MountainViewFireRescue\/posts\/pfbid0S2ceJoMuii7VVRUFEpbodMgqMwfdwMQzAEg33oMFJ6WePjevyeyufzDLayn7JFUAl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mountain View Fire Rescue post on Facebook<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>There is no reason to call 911 for the smoke in the area, the post says.\n<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the burn area have cattails, which make a lot of dark smoke when they burn, Mountain View spokesperson Rick Tillery said. Cattails, or typha, are a plant that grows near water.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s Office crews are on the scene monitoring the burn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That smoke in the Erie area near Colorado 52 and East County Line Road is a prescribed burn,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1675,1676,7250,202,136,138,137,422,1677,241,182,139,1680],"class_list":["post-324391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-boulder-county","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fire","tag-front-range","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-weld-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}