{"id":82931,"date":"2026-05-19T07:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82931"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:20:29","slug":"fire-threatens-thousands-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/fire-threatens-thousands-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Threatens Thousands In California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/546cf8e\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5808x3872+0+0\/resize\/320x213!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fad%2F31%2Fff86f66cde0cd11589d6eb89ad85%2F31f29d050458440ca30dec0ab1fbf416\" alt=\"Water is dropped by helicopter on the advancing Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo\/Etienne Laurent, File)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate Monday as a wind-driven wildfire threatened suburban homes in Southern California.\u00a0The Sandy Fire was reported around 10 a.m. in hills above Simi Valley, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>By mid-afternoon it had consumed more than 500 acres (200 hectares) of dry brush and damaged at least one home, according to the Ventura County Fire Department.\u00a0The flames were pushed by morning gusts that topped 30 mph (48 kph) but were subsiding later in the day, said according to fire department spokesperson Scott Dettorre.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1779175229\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Fire Threatens Thousands In California\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate Monday as a wind-driven wildfire threatened suburban homes in Southern California.\u00a0The.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82932,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82931\/revisions\/82932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}