{"id":721744,"date":"2026-04-12T02:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/721744\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:01:14","slug":"squirrel-blamed-for-chain-of-events-that-ignited-spot-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/721744\/","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel blamed for chain of events that ignited spot fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AUBURN, Calif. (KOLO) &#8211; On April 5, 2026, at 10:49 a.m., a spot fire between Landis Circle and the eastbound Interstate 80 on ramp in Auburn was reported, according to an Auburn Police Department Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Auburn Fire Department firefighters responded, quickly contained, and extinguished it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Initially, it was believed to be caused by a blown transformer, the post said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Following an assessment of the scene, firefighters determined the fire was caused by a squirrel that came into contact with equipment on a PG&amp;E utility pole, which resulted in damage to a glass insulator, the post said. It ignited nearby vegetation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There were no injuries reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KOLO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUBURN, Calif. (KOLO) &#8211; On April 5, 2026, at 10:49 a.m., a spot fire between Landis Circle and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":721745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[32579,299329,159,299328,82744,67,132,68,837],"class_list":["post-721744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-auburn","tag-auburn-police-department","tag-science","tag-spot-fire","tag-squirrel","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116389274305630549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721744","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=721744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}