{"id":16731,"date":"2012-07-03T23:50:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T06:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=16731"},"modified":"2012-07-27T23:22:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T06:22:48","slug":"200-acres-burne-near-anaverde-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/07\/03\/200-acres-burne-near-anaverde-community\/","title":{"rendered":"200+ acres burned near Anaverde community"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16734\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theavtimes.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Anaverde-fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16734\" title=\"Anaverde fire\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theavtimes.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Anaverde-fire-1024x616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Anaverde-fire-1024x616.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Anaverde-fire-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Anaverde-fire.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fire started around 9 p.m. near Magnolia Lane and Boxwood Place and quickly spread to 20 acres. By 11:15 p.m., more than 200 acres were scorched, fire officials said.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PALMDALE \u2013 Hundreds of firefighters Tuesday night battled a wind-driven hillside brush fire near the 37000 Block of Avenue S in Palmdale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a third-alarm assignment with approximately 250 firefighters responding,\u201d said L.A. County Fire Inspector Tony Imbrenda. \u201cWe have three water dropping helicopters from L.A. County Fire Department working the fire, there\u2019re two [bull]dozer teams from L.A. County Fire, and we have a couple of [bull]dozer teams from U.S. Forest Service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theavtimes.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Anaverde-fire-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16733\" title=\"Anaverde fire 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theavtimes.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Anaverde-fire-2-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Anaverde-fire-2-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Anaverde-fire-2.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Palmdale Sheriff\u2019s Station began receiving 9-1-1 calls starting at 9 p.m. indicating there was a brush fire southwest of the Anaverde Community.<\/p>\n<p>By 11 p.m., the brush fire had burned more than 200 acres and was still spreading due to 20 mph winds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of strong winds, the rate of fire spread is pretty significant,\u201d Imbrenda said.<\/p>\n<p>Imbrenda said some structures were threatened early on, but were now out of danger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re talking about voluntary evacuation orders of the Lazy T Ranch area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As of 11:15 p.m., the fire department had not requested home evacuations of any area; but they were asking residents in the surrounding areas to prepare themselves in case evacuations were ordered.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Lake Road, between 25th Street West and Godde Hill Rd, and Avenue S, West from Tierra Subida, were closed to make way for fire personnel and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire is under investigation, fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>UPDATED at 11:50 p.m. 7\/3\/2012:<\/strong><\/span> Around 11:45 p.m., the fire department called knockdown and moved to the mop up stage, which was expected to last through the night. The helicopters were being released and the department was maintaining fire watch, according to the last report from fire officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE \u2013 Hundreds of firefighters Tuesday night battled a wind-driven hillside brush fire near the 37000 Block of Avenue S in Palmdale. \u201cWe have a third-alarm assignment with approximately 250 firefighters responding,\u201d said L.A. County Fire Inspector Tony Imbrenda. \u201cWe have three water dropping helicopters from L.A. County Fire Department working the fire, there\u2019re two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":16734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}