{"id":287181,"date":"2026-04-26T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287181\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:01:07","slug":"firefighters-get-35-containment-of-the-carbon-fire-in-brea-area-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287181\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters get 35% containment of the Carbon fire in Brea area \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wind-driven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/04\/25\/wind-driven-carbon-fire-burns-near-homes-in-brea\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carbon fire<\/a> in undeveloped hills in the Brea area was slowed down overnight in part by rain, with higher humidity also helping firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday morning, April 26, the fire in county territory outside the city was 35% contained, Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Sean Doran said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weather was favorable for us last night in addition to crews working through the night,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Forward progression of the fire, which had scorched at least 200 acres, was declared stopped by 1:47 a.m. Sunday, April 26, the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ocfireauthority\/status\/2048403767134236836?s=46&amp;t=bzmlZB-S53ZJ4lsokH4NaQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">Orange County Fire Authority said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, firefighters continued working to further contain the blaze. That effort included ground crews, bulldozers and engines, the captain said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditional resources are available as needed, including air operations,\u201d Doran said. \u201cCurrently, we\u2019re flying the fire with a drone to precisely direct crews to the hot spots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evacuation orders were lifted for Olinda Village and Hollydale, Doran said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire\u2019s cause was under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze was first reported around 1:45 p.m. on Saturday, April 25, on the north side of Carbon Canyon Road, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/app.watchduty.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Duty, a nonprofit app<\/a> that tracks wildfires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wind-driven Carbon fire in undeveloped hills in the Brea area was slowed down overnight in part by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,8233,7,138,100,611,136,535],"class_list":["post-287181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-brea","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-top-stories","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287181","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=287181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}