{"id":169926,"date":"2025-08-23T19:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169926\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:56:29","slug":"lightning-ignites-multiple-small-fires-in-angeles-national-forest-amid-heat-wave-red-flag-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169926\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning ignites multiple small fires in Angeles National Forest amid heat wave, red flag warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST (KABC) &#8212; Lightning ignited several small fires Saturday morning in the Angeles National Forest, prompting responses from firefighters at locations from Mount Baldy to the Antelope Valley, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Shortly after 9 a.m., U.S. Forest Service firefighters responded to a tree fire caused by a lightning strike on Mt. Baldy Road, near the Manker Flat campground, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Just before 9:30 a.m., Angeles National Forest and Los Angeles County firefighters were battling two lightning fires southwest of Littlerock, near Mt. Emma Road and 47th Street East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Minutes later, the so-called <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/cameras.alertcalifornia.org\/?pos=34.3503_-117.7127_13&amp;id=Axis-MtnHighNorth2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Table Fire<\/a> was reported just west of Wrightwood, near Table Mountain. Firefighters from the Forest Service and L.A. and San Bernardino counties responded to that blaze, which was also sparked by lightning, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No injuries were structural damage were immediately reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Saturday&#8217;s lightning and thunderstorms came as an extended heat wave continued to blanket Southern California, with <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/weather\/alerts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">red flag warnings<\/a> and <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/weather\/alerts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extreme heat warnings<\/a> in effect throughout the region.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST (KABC) &#8212; Lightning ignited several small fires Saturday morning in the Angeles National Forest, prompting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[97224,1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-169926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-97224","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115079845402159715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}