{"id":76286,"date":"2025-07-19T20:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/76286\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T20:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:52:11","slug":"pala-fire-burns-8-acres-leads-to-brief-evacuation-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/76286\/","title":{"rendered":"Pala Fire burns 8 acres, leads to brief evacuation order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0.plala_.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0.plala_.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of the remote terrain around the Pala fire.\" class=\"wp-image-332351\"  \/><\/a>An aerial view of the remote terrain around the Pala fire. (Photo courtesy of Cal Fire San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>A brush fire broke out Saturday west of the Pala Indian Reservation, burning seven acres before firefighters stopped its forward progress.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze was reported at 11:33 a.m. Saturday at Highway 76 near Couser Canyon Road, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Fire<\/a> San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>In less than an hour, the agency said that forward progress had been stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Evacuation orders and warnings had been issued, but lifted soon after once crews gained the upper hand on the blaze. Firefighters will remain on scene for several hours for clean-up.<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Mike Cornette said the fire \u201chas slowed down quite a bit,\u201d adding that its spread in a riparian area with a river bottom might be a factor.<\/p>\n<p>Although structures were under threat, there have not been any reports of damage or injuries, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple agencies helped Cal Fire battle the blaze, including with additional aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Cornette reminded people not to fly drones, \u201cas those will hamper our firefight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An aerial view of the remote terrain around the Pala fire. (Photo courtesy of Cal Fire San Diego)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,52896,1582,12885,276,52897,3549,7264,52898,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-76286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brush-fires","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-cal-fire-san-diego","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-pala","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-state-route-76","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114881884554249669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76286","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=76286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}