{"id":321546,"date":"2026-05-18T18:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321546\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:36:08","slug":"fire-destroys-building-in-simi-valley-as-evacuations-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321546\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys building in Simi Valley as evacuations ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A brush fire in Simi Valley has moved into a neighborhood and burned at least one structure.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out before 11 a.m. Monday and was wind-driven in Ventura County, footage on KTLA showed.<\/p>\n<p>The Sandy Fire was burning amid dry, light gusty winds.<\/p>\n<p>The fire covered some 183 acres Monday morning and triggered evacuation orders for a wide swath of homes in southern Simi Valley, according to Watch Duty.<\/p>\n<p>Evacuation warnings stretched west into northern Thousand Oaks.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brush fire in Simi Valley has moved into a neighborhood and burned at least one structure. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44349,7,9,8,3802,4987,4407,134020,63,290,23286,3044,7814,1226],"class_list":["post-321546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-a-m-monday","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-fire","tag-footage","tag-ktla","tag-light-gusty-wind","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-neighborhood","tag-simi-valley","tag-story","tag-structure","tag-ventura-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321546","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=321546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}