{"id":125497,"date":"2025-05-23T14:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125497\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:39:12","slug":"wildfire-near-mattawa-torches-70-acres-causes-internet-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125497\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire Near Mattawa Torches 70 Acres, Causes Internet Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brush fire sent crews in Western Grant County scrambling on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the blaze ignited just north of Mattawa near Wanapum Dam and quickly swelled to 70 acres in dry grass and sagebrush before being corralled.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/attachment-900.jpg\" alt=\"NewsRadio 560 KPQ logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Grant County PUD says the fire disrupted internet service to residents in Beverly, Schawana, Mattaw, and Desert Aire for several hours before being restored.<\/p>\n<p>Crews remained at the scene through Thursday mopping up hot spots and ensuring that the blaze was completely out.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is unknown and currently under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>8 Ways to Clear &amp; Keep Wildfire Smoke from Your Home<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/97rockonline.com\/author\/heathbrewster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AJ Brewster<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brush fire sent crews in Western Grant County scrambling on Wednesday evening. Officials say the blaze ignited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[55588,55589,3082,55591,55021,53,16,15,55590],"class_list":{"0":"post-125497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-brushfire","9":"tag-grant-county-pud","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-kpq-news","12":"tag-mattawa","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wanapum-dam"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114557666509526836","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}