{"id":781444,"date":"2026-05-08T07:17:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/781444\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:17:47","slug":"brush-fire-near-horseshoe-lake-northeast-of-phoenix-grows-to-300-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/781444\/","title":{"rendered":"Brush fire near Horseshoe Lake northeast of Phoenix grows to 300 acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>HORSESHOE LAKE, AZ (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Firefighters are battling a new brush fire northeast of Phoenix in the Tonto National Forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Horseshoe Fire broke out Thursday near the west side of the Verde River, south of Horseshoe Lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Forest officials say the fire has grown to about 300 acres and is spreading moderately to quickly, with winds around 10 mph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The U.S. Forest Service says multiple crews are battling the flames from the air.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"The Horseshoe Fire broke out Thursday near the west side of the Verde River in the Cave Creek...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DEKH7KK2SJEEFM3VSGEMUHJYW4.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"550\" \/>The Horseshoe Fire broke out Thursday near the west side of the Verde River in the Cave Creek Ranger District.<br \/>\nOfficials say the fire is estimated at about 300 acres and is burning at a moderate to high rate of spread, with  winds around 10 mph.(US Forest Service &#8211; Tonto National Forest)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Maricopa County Sheriff\u2019s Office is also assisting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Firefighters are focusing on protecting multiple buildings in the area that include K Ranch, Horseshoe Dam, utility infrastructure and natural resources. No evacuation or pre-evacuation warnings have been issued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/H7uaACgy7EtTetkJ7\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/H7uaACgy7EtTetkJ7\">Forest Road 205<\/a> is closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HORSESHOE LAKE, AZ (AZFamily) \u2014 Firefighters are battling a new brush fire northeast of Phoenix in the Tonto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":781445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,319761,28327,1589,7183,319762,11006,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-781444","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-az","11":"tag-azfamily","12":"tag-horseshoe-lake-fire","13":"tag-maricopa-county-sheriffs-office","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-phoenix-news","16":"tag-tonto-national-forest","17":"tag-u-s-forest-service","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116537737242697214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781444","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=781444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}