{"id":1515966,"date":"2022-06-14T17:49:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T21:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515966"},"modified":"2022-06-14T17:49:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T21:49:37","slug":"california-wildfire-burns-almost-1000-acres-crews-increase-containment-to-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-wildfire-burns-almost-1000-acres-crews-increase-containment-to-35\/","title":{"rendered":"California Wildfire Burns Almost 1,000 Acres, Crews Increase Containment To 35%"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-wildfire-burns-almost-1000-acres-crews-increase-containment-to-35%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515966&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">A wildfire in Southern California has burned almost 1,000 acres, but early Tuesday afternoon, conditions appeared more favorable for firefighters, and crews had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-06-14\/thousand-acre-sheep-fire-27-contained-as-wind-warm-temperatures-return\">reached<\/a> 35% containment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/13\/us\/fires-california-sheep-arizona.html\">Known as the Sheep fire<\/a>, the blaze started on Saturday and quickly spread over dry land as first responders contended with a heat wave. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection told The New York Times the fire had been \u201cespecially challenging due to dense vegetation, steep terrain, and high and erratic winds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Evacuation orders for a main area of Wrightwood, about 77 miles northeast of Los Angeles, were in place on Tuesday morning. However, according to the Los Angeles Times, officials said, \u201cevacuation orders and warnings would likely be revised Tuesday afternoon.\u201d\u00a0 Around 4,500 people live in Wrightwood, which sits at 6,000 feet of elevation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The fire comes after Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2022\/05\/02\/governor-newsom-proclaims-wildfire-preparedness-week-2022\/\">issued<\/a> a proclamation in May, making the first week of the month in 2022 \u201cWildfire Preparedness Week.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cBuilding on our past budget investments, I\u2019m proposing an additional $1.2 billion this year as part of a total $2.7 billion multi-year investment to step up forest management and other projects that decrease catastrophic wildfire risk,\u201d Newsom stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The governor added that they are also creating stronger funding for firefighting materials and equipment. He also touched on another topic that has been controversial in the past \u2014 that of controlled burning or prescribed fires.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The use of controlled burning in forests is meant to cut down on the amount of overgrowth that can easily catch fire and result in an uncontrollable spread. It also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/managing-land\/prescribed-fire\">helps<\/a> \u201crestore health to ecosystems that depend on fire,\u201d according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In March, Newsom\u2019s task force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2022\/03\/30\/governors-task-force-launches-strategic-plan-to-ramp-up-wildfire-mitigation-with-prescribed-fire-efforts\/\">created<\/a> a strategy \u201cfor state, federal, and tribal partners to promote use of \u2018beneficial fire\u2019 on up to 400,000 acres annually by 2025 to help make forests more resilient.\u201d The move is part of a broader plan to work on 1 million acres each year in California by 2025. In 2021, California put $1.5 billion towards \u201cwildfire resilience,\u201d which included \u201cprescribed fire and cultural burning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The California Policy Center <a href=\"https:\/\/californiapolicycenter.org\/environmentalists-destroyed-californias-forests\/\">reported<\/a> in 2020 that the environmental pushback against \u201ctimber harvesting, underbrush removal, and controlled burns,\u201d as well as the suppression of natural fires led to disastrous wildfire conditions in California.<\/p>\n<p>An intense heat wave has impacted much of the United States, with the high temperatures expected to continue through mid-week from the midwestern states to the southeast. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 70 million people were under heat advisories across the country. Almost 48 million people were under an excessive heat warning, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/images\/crh\/dhs\/wwa_population.png\">National Weather Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wildfire in Southern California has burned almost 1,000 acres, but early Tuesday afternoon, conditions appeared more favorable for firefighters, and crews had reached 35% containment.\u00a0 Known as the Sheep fire, the blaze started on Saturday and quickly spread over dry land as first responders contended with a heat wave. 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