{"id":1241,"date":"2010-08-07T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2010-08-08T08:15:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T15:15:44","slug":"news-brief-local-wildfire-strike-team-heads-toward-walla-walla-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Local wildfire strike team heads toward Walla Walla this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A team of Lewis and Thurston county firefighters including an engine from Morton and another from Napavine departed early this morning to a rapidly growing wildfire in Eastern Washington that reportedly began yesterday afternoon and was threatening as many as 10 homes by evening.<\/p>\n<p>More than 15 square miles of grass and sagebrush were burning about 25 miles northwest of Walla Walla, according to last night&#8217;s report to the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center. That&#8217;s about the same size as the Cowiche Mill Fire outside Yakima in mid-July.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the State Fire Marshal last night ordered the mobilization of five wildland strike teams to assist Walla Walla Fire District 3, according to a news release early this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis County Fire District 14 Chief Jeff Jaques of Randle said the local team consists of five engines and a water tender. They departed shortly before 5:30 a.m. today, according to Jaques.<\/p>\n<p>Advisory evacuations are in place for residents in the area of the wind-driven fire near the town of Eureka, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u2022\u2022<br \/>\nReaders should be able to get the latest by reading the <a title=\"&quot;Eureka fire ...&quot; \" href=\"http:\/\/union-bulletin.com\/stories\/2010\/8\/7\/eureka-fire-may-be-under-control-today\" target=\"_blank\">Walla Walla Union Bulletin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter A team of Lewis and Thurston county firefighters including an engine from Morton and another from Napavine departed early this morning to a rapidly growing wildfire in Eastern Washington that reportedly began yesterday afternoon and was threatening as many as 10 homes by evening. More than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}