{"id":53962,"date":"2025-07-10T11:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53962\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T11:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:17:27","slug":"east-county-brush-fire-forces-evacuations-in-jamul-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53962\/","title":{"rendered":"East County brush fire forces evacuations in Jamul area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire burned roughly 28 acres along a ridge in Jamul on Wednesday, prompting several residents to evacuate as nearby homes were threatened.<\/p>\n<p>All evacuation orders and warnings in the area surrounding the fire \u2014 except for the immediate burn zone, which did not include any homes \u2014 were lifted by 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"....Fire helicopters drop fire retardant near Steele Canyon Rd to battle the wildfire on Wednesday, July 9, 2025 in Jamul, CA. (Michael Ho \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)\" width=\"6240\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SUT-L-Steele-Fire_114.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9395674\" \/>Fire helicopters drop fire retardant near Steele Canyon Road. (Michael Ho \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n<p>The fire was first reported on Star Acres Drive just north of state Route 94 around 2:10 p.m., Cal Fire officials said in a statement posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>Around 4:10 p.m., Cal Fire Capt. Mike Cornette said the blaze\u2019s forward progress was stopped. The fire was 40% contained by 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A temporary evacuation site was set up at Steele Canyon High School.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Firefighters are actively working the fire line just north of Star Acres Lane, while a helicopter conducts a water drop during the Steel Fire on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Spring Valley, CA. As of 4:30 PM on Wednesday, the fire has burned 28 acres and is currently 25% contained. (Nelvin C. Cepeda \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)\" width=\"4200\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sut-l-steele-fire-001.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9395675\" \/>Firefighters actively working the fire line just north of Star Acres Lane, while a helicopter conducts a water drop. (Nelvin C. Cepeda \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s officials temporarily closed Steele Canyon Road between Vista Cielo and Willow Glen drives to through traffic, as well as Campo Road at Old Campo Road, according to online mapping.<\/p>\n<p>Besides flames, fire crews also battled 91-degree afternoon heat with 40% relative humidity at the scene, National Weather Service meteorologists said.<\/p>\n<p>Staff writer Gary Robbins contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: July 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire burned roughly 28 acres along a ridge in Jamul on Wednesday, prompting several residents to evacuate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,5295,20161,40036,1370,728,50,3549,3550,7264,7289,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-53962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-east-county","13":"tag-jamul","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-san-diego-county","19":"tag-sandiego","20":"tag-top-stories-sdut","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114828662938495100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53962","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=53962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}