{"id":284393,"date":"2025-10-07T17:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/284393\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T17:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:08:14","slug":"whats-all-the-haze-in-southwest-phoenix-skies-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/284393\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s all the haze in southwest Phoenix skies? Here&#8217;s what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire crews are operating a prescribed fire in the Tres Rios Wetlands, filling southwest Valley skies with smoke that can be seen miles away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire operations are underway on a 50-acre plot of the wetlands, about 16 miles southwest of downtown Phoenix, according to a social media post at 8:18 a.m. by the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said the burn is a joint effort by Arizona DFFM and Phoenix Fire Department to reduce invasive plant species and overgrown vegetation in the 700-acre wetlands.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The wetlands are located in the area of 91st Avenue and Broadway Road in west Phoenix, near the Salt River, according to a city website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/local\/phoenix-breaking\/2025\/10\/07\/tres-rios-wetlands-fire-southwest-phoenix\/86566126007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:What&#039;s all the haze in southwest Phoenix skies?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">What&#8217;s all the haze in southwest Phoenix skies?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire crews are operating a prescribed fire in the Tres Rios Wetlands, filling southwest Valley skies with smoke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":284394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,146589,1587,10094,75827,146590,146593,1589,8748,146592,146594,146591,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,33329],"class_list":{"0":"post-284393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-department-of-forestry","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-downtown-phoenix","13":"tag-fire-crews","14":"tag-fire-operations","15":"tag-invasive-plant-species","16":"tag-phoenix","17":"tag-phoenix-fire-department","18":"tag-prescribed-fire","19":"tag-southwest-valley","20":"tag-tres-rios-wetlands","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-west-phoenix"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115333989683754132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284393","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=284393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}