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<\/a><\/p>\nA fast-moving vegetation fire in San Jose’s Alum Rock Park forced an evacuation on Thursday afternoon as firefighters worked to contain the blaze using both ground and air resources. <\/p>\n
The Creek Fire was first reported at around 2:29 pm near Penitencia Creek Road and quickly expanded to about five acres \u2014 roughly the size of three football fields \u2014 according to the San Jos\u00e9 Fire Department. <\/p>\n
Park rangers began clearing visitors from the area as crews battled flames across steep terrain and strengthening winds. <\/p>\n
“Firefighters are responding with SJFD to a 5-acre fire near Penitencia Creek Rd in Alum Rock Park,” Cal Fire’s Santa Clara Unit said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “Multiple air and ground resources are en route.” <\/p>\n
The department raised its response level from Tier 1 to Tier 3 within an hour of the initial report, citing a growing rate of spread. <\/p>\n
“Rate of spread increasing due to wind picking up. No structures threatened at this time,” the department said at 2:53 pm, later confirming the escalation to Tier 3 at 3:04 pm <\/p>\n
By 3:15 pm, firefighters were continuing operations from both the air and ground, with Cal Fire providing helicopter and air tanker support. <\/p>\n
No injuries or damage to structures were reported, but officials urged the public to stay clear of the area while firefighting efforts continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jos\u00e9 Fire Department responded to the blaze. (Photo: X) A fast-moving vegetation fire in San Jose’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[16959,16962,16913,6980,16956,16960,16957,16963,16966,88,16958,16961,90,89,16965,16964,7719,3586],"class_list":["post-20779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-alum-rock-fire-today","tag-alum-rock-fire-update","tag-alum-rock-park","tag-cal-fire","tag-fire-in-san-jose","tag-fire-in-san-jose-today","tag-fire-san-jose-today","tag-rock-park","tag-san-jos-fire-department","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-fire-now","tag-san-jose-fire-update","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-unit","tag-sjfd","tag-times-now","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20779","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=20779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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