{"id":329967,"date":"2026-05-24T01:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329967\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T01:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:15:08","slug":"truckee-man-accused-of-causing-fire-behind-safeway-on-donner-pass-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329967\/","title":{"rendered":"Truckee man accused of causing fire behind Safeway on Donner Pass Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Truckee man was arrested on Saturday afternoon after authorities said he caused a fire behind a Safeway and took off from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Truckee police said the vegetation fire was first reported shortly after 1:15 p.m. behind the Safeway on Donner Pass Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after firefighters and police arrived at the scene, police said 35-year-old Samuel Soto was contacted. It was determined that Soto recklessly caused the fire and took off from the area, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested for unlawfully and recklessly causing a fire to forestland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cal Fire crews said the fire burned just under an acre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Truckee man was arrested on Saturday afternoon after authorities said he caused a fire behind a Safeway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,54861],"class_list":["post-329967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-truckee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329967","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=329967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}