{"id":31327,"date":"2025-01-23T13:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T13:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/firefighters-battle-to-keep-upper-hand-on-new-wildfire-north-of-los-angeles\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T13:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T13:41:06","slug":"firefighters-battle-to-keep-upper-hand-on-new-wildfire-north-of-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/firefighters-battle-to-keep-upper-hand-on-new-wildfire-north-of-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle to keep upper hand on new wildfire north of Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hughes fire near Castaic Lake broke out on Wednesday and led to evacuation orders or warnings for more than 50,000<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters fought to maintain the upper hand on a huge and rapidly moving wildfire that swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles and resulted in more than 50,000 people being put under evacuation orders or warnings.<\/p>\n<p>The Hughes fire broke out late Wednesday morning and in less than a day had charred nearly 16 sq miles (41 sq km) of trees and brush near Castaic Lake, a popular recreation area about 40 miles (64km) from the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires that are burning for a third week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/23\/california-hughes-fire-los-angeles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hughes fire near Castaic Lake broke out on Wednesday and led to evacuation orders or warnings for more than 50,000 Firefighters fought to maintain the upper hand on a huge and rapidly moving wildfire that swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles and resulted in more than 50,000 people being put under evacuation orders &#8230; <a title=\"Firefighters battle to keep upper hand on new wildfire north of Los Angeles\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/firefighters-battle-to-keep-upper-hand-on-new-wildfire-north-of-los-angeles\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Firefighters battle to keep upper hand on new wildfire north of Los Angeles\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}