{"id":744781,"date":"2026-04-22T06:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/744781\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:48:22","slug":"metal-grinder-determined-to-be-cause-of-brush-fire-in-ramona-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/744781\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal grinder determined to be cause of brush fire in Ramona \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brush fire in a rural area near San Diego Zoo Safari Park blackened about seven acres Tuesday, briefly posing an imminent structural threat but causing no reported structural damage or injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze erupted shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday off Highland Valley Road in Ramona, near Highland Trails Drive, according to Cal Fire.<\/p>\n<p>Ground crews and personnel aboard air tankers and water-dropping helicopters fought the fire, which moved dangerously close to a single structure, said Mike Cornette, a fire captain with the state agency. It was not immediately clear if it was a home or some other type of building that was threatened by the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters had the spread of the flames halted by about 1:45 p.m., Cornette said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Highland5Fire?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Highland5Fire<\/a> [Final 4\/21\/2026 4:02pm] The fire was contained to 7.3 acres. The fire investigator has determined the cause to be a metal grinder. Remember to have a water source or fire extinguisher when working near dry brush and activate 911. One less spark, one less fire. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/diJsa3rxMc\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/diJsa3rxMc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CAL FIRE\/San Diego County Fire (@CALFIRESANDIEGO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CALFIRESANDIEGO\/status\/2046729987810800074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The cause of the fire was determined to be from a metal grinder, according to Cal Fire&#8217;s fire investigator. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brush fire in a rural area near San Diego Zoo Safari Park blackened about seven acres Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":744782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,8916,276,49960,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-744781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-cal-fire-sd","tag-california","tag-ramona","tag-san-diego","tag-sandiego","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116447026115910915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744781","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=744781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}