{"id":8289,"date":"2011-08-31T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T16:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=8289"},"modified":"2011-08-31T12:29:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T19:29:20","slug":"news-brief-locals-travel-to-eastern-wash-to-battle-wild-land-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=8289","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Locals travel to Eastern Wash. to battle wild land fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nLocal firefighters have gone to assist in fighting wildfires in Eastern Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Two members of Lewis County Fire District 5 were asked early Monday morning to take their brush truck and join a strike team in the southeast corner of the state where lightening started a large fire on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>They are Raymond Smerek and Kevin Van Egdom, according to District 5.<\/p>\n<p>As of last night, the fire near Pomeroy in Garfield County had spread over almost 6,000 acres but is expected to be contained by the end of today, according to the <a title=\"Northwest Interagency Coordination Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nwccweb.us\/information\/fire_info.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Northwest Interagency Coordination Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday evening, District 5&#8217;s Brad Bozarth was assigned to a water tender as part of a team headed to Wishram in Klickitat County, according to Megan Van Egdom of District 5.<\/p>\n<p>That fire as of yesterday evening had consumed more than 1,000 acres of grass and sage and firefighters there are expected to be in &#8220;mop up&#8221; mode today, according to the Coordination Center.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from the Rochester area&#8217;s West Thurston Regional Fire Authority left on Monday as well to assist. Four members of the Toledo area fire department have also gone.<\/p>\n<p>The center reports about 300 firefighters are working the two wild land fires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter Local firefighters have gone to assist in fighting wildfires in Eastern Washington. Two members of Lewis County Fire District 5 were asked early Monday morning to take their brush truck and join a strike team in the southeast corner of the state where lightening started a [&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-8289","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\/8289","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=8289"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8294,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions\/8294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}