{"id":186524,"date":"2026-02-20T20:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186524\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:37:09","slug":"fire-erupts-at-cabrillo-bridge-in-balboa-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186524\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire erupts at Cabrillo Bridge in Balboa Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2013 A fire broke out at the Cabrillo Bridge in Balboa Park Friday morning, but San Diego Fire-Rescue crews put out the blaze before it spread.<\/p>\n<p>SDFD officials said crews were dispatched to the scene just after 5:30 a.m. due to a fire reported under the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Responding firefighters located flames inside the bridge\u2019s structural tower, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771619828_161_.png\" alt=\"cabrillo_bridge_fire4_022026.png\"  width=\"900\" height=\"675\"\/><\/p>\n<p>KGTV<\/p>\n<p>Officials said no one appeared to be inside the structure and it was unknown how the fire started.<\/p>\n<p>SDFD officials told ABC 10News they have responded to similar fires at the bridge before.<\/p>\n<p>Caltrans was working to determine if the fire would affect the integrity of the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771619829_403_.png\" alt=\"cabrillo_bridge_fire2_022026.png\"  width=\"900\" height=\"675\"\/><\/p>\n<p>KGTV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2013 A fire broke out at the Cabrillo Bridge in Balboa Park Friday morning, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4549,87837,87838,74,43049,76,75],"class_list":["post-186524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-balboa-park","tag-bridge-fire-balboa-park","tag-cabrillo-bridge","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-fire","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}