{"id":3239,"date":"2016-09-16T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2016-09-16T06:00:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T13:00:40","slug":"crews-contain-176-acre-fire-near-cal-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3239","title":{"rendered":"Crews Contain 176-Acre Fire Near Cal Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE 6:16 p.m.:<\/strong> Crews with the Sacramento Fire Department have contained a grass fire that burned 175 acres on the American River Parkway near Cal Expo Thursday. The blazed prompted officials to close the bike trail for evening commuters.<\/p>\n<p>As of 6:24 p.m., crews are mopping up and will continue to clean up through the night. Officials say there are multiple fires still burning within the perimeter of the blaze.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 3:15 p.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>The Sacramento Fire Department is fighting a two-alarm fire between Cal Expo and the American River bike trail Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Harvey is with the department. He says the winds moved the fire fairly quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Along the bike trail there, it&#8217;s relatively flat and the fuels are more like shin-high to waist-high fuels,&#8221; says Harvey. &#8220;But, once the wind started blowing it to the north, it started getting into some of these taller cottonwoods and the star thistle and then the fire really takes off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cal Expo employees and people who live at the stables were evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>Park rangers evacuated the homeless camps in the area.<\/p>\n<p>One person was treated for smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n<p>No cause has been identified. This is the third fire in the area in the last 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters will be mopping up for several hours.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Sacramento Fire officials say the blaze at American River Parkway continues to burn Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Helicopters have been unable to drop water close to the fire due to power lines in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Some homeless people living on the parkway have been evacuated. Cal Expo employees and residents nearby have also been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say two fires have been started in the area within the last 58 hours.<\/p>\n<p>One person was treated for smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capradio.org\/articles\/2016\/09\/15\/firefighters-knock-down-grass-fire-near-cal-expo\/\">CapRadio.org<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE 6:16 p.m.: Crews with the Sacramento Fire Department have contained a grass fire that burned 175 acres on the American River Parkway near Cal Expo Thursday. The blazed prompted officials to close the bike trail for evening commuters. As of 6:24 p.m., crews are mopping up and will continue to clean up through the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3239\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crews Contain 176-Acre Fire Near Cal Expo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-trail","category-fire","category-safety","category-water","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3240,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}