{"id":297235,"date":"2026-05-03T00:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297235\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T00:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:20:26","slug":"update-gopher-fire-burns-67-acres-in-riverside-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297235\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Gopher Fire burns 67 acres in Riverside County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/904274ad-cc18-4c6a-b772-fd81b276817c.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Updates on California wildfires.\" alt=\"Updates on California wildfires.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Updates on California wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom. Read more on our AI policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Updated: 4:26 p.m. May 2<\/p>\n<p>First discovered: 2:39 p.m. May 2<\/p>\n<p>Initial location: Highway 79 and Sage Road, Aguanga, Riverside County, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Fire unit: Unified Command: Cal Fire Riverside Unit and Cleaveland National Forest<\/p>\n<p>Fire type: Wildfire<\/p>\n<p>Fire name: Gopher Fire<\/p>\n<p>Gopher Fire initially started today at 2:39 p.m. at Highway 79 and Sage Road, Aguanga in Riverside County, California, an increase of 27 acres since the last update. At present, details about the containment of the fire are unknown.<\/p>\n<p>See live video from the area:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Https:\/\/ops.alertcalifornia.org\/cam-console\/Axis-Elsinore1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Https:\/\/ops.alertcalifornia.org\/cam-console\/Axis-Elsinore1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Cal Fire<\/p>\n<p>United Robots Sacramento<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published May 2, 2026 at 3:10 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updates on California wildfires. The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-297235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297235","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=297235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}