{"id":357632,"date":"2026-08-27T22:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/2-wildfires-burn-along-californias-scenic-big-sur-coast"},"modified":"2026-08-27T22:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:11:16","slug":"2-wildfires-burn-along-californias-scenic-big-sur-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/2-wildfires-burn-along-californias-scenic-big-sur-coast","title":{"rendered":"2 wildfires burn alongside California&#8217;s scenic Large Sur coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">BIG SUR, Calif. &#8212; <\/span>Hearth crews with water-dropping plane attacked a small <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wildfires\">wildfire<\/a> that prompted new evacuations Thursday alongside California&#8217;s distant Large Sur coast, the place a a lot bigger blaze has been burning for almost three weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Plaskett Hearth erupted the day past in steep terrain in Monterey County close to Freeway 1. Officers briefly closed a portion of the scenic coastal route Thursday afternoon as firefighters scrambled to maintain the flames from operating by canyons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A handful of remoted properties had been underneath evacuation orders and warnings. The hearth had no containment to this point, and its trigger was underneath investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">About 40 miles (60 kilometers) to the north, officers closed one other part of the freeway the place the Timber Hearth has been lively since Aug. 8. Crews carried out back-burning operations, intentionally setting hearth to brush to maintain the larger blaze from advancing towards populated areas of Large Sur. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The bigger hearth was almost 31 sq. miles (80 sq. kilometers), with greater than 20% containment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Hearth hazard is excessive in a lot of California as a consequence of an elevated threat of lightning and gusty winds from the remnants of a tropical storm within the Pacific. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/2-wildfires-burn-californias-scenic-big-sur-coast-136019594\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIG SUR, Calif. &#8212; Hearth crews with water-dropping plane attacked a small wildfire that prompted new evacuations Thursday alongside California&#8217;s distant Large Sur coast, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":357634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357633,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357632\/revisions\/357633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}