{"id":244760,"date":"2026-03-31T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244760\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:44:08","slug":"apocalyptic-scenes-as-towers-of-smoke-rise-from-san-diego-brush-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244760\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalyptic Scenes as Towers of Smoke Rise From San Diego Brush Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/local\/wildfire\/brush-fire-burns-in-riverbed-in-santee\/509-8271fced-4f20-4c50-8ceb-291c7d8d975a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:brush fire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;brush fire&quot;}\" class=\"link \">brush fire<\/a> sent plumes of smoke billowing above a San Diego neighborhood on Sunday, March 29, blocking the sun and creating an apocalyptic scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire, which started in a riverbed situated between homes and a line of shops, was contained to <a href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\/news\/local-news\/santee-fire-crews-respond\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:five acres;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;five acres&quot;}\" class=\"link \">five acres<\/a> with forward progression being halted at around 7:15 pm, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SDSheriff\/status\/2038466388042686789\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office&quot;}\" class=\"link \">San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office would also like to thank our law enforcement, firefighting and first responder partners for their assistance and support during this incident,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage captured by Manuel De La Torre in Santee shows the blaze burning strong, as a tall tower of smoke rises high above. Credit: Manuel De La Torre via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive brush fire sent plumes of smoke billowing above a San Diego neighborhood on Sunday, March 29,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[109042,109581,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-244760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-forward-progression","tag-manuel-de-la-torre","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244760","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=244760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}