{"id":336919,"date":"2026-05-29T02:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/336919\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T02:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:50:23","slug":"san-jose-fire-crews-battle-vegetation-fire-wednesday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/336919\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose fire crews battle vegetation fire Wednesday afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:KRON;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;KRON&quot;}\" class=\"link \">KRON<\/a>) \u2014 Crews in San Jose responded to a vegetation fire Wednesday afternoon near the Independence High School campus, according to the San Jose Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters were dispatched at 12:20 p.m. to the area of Mabury Road and Educational Park Drive. The fire grew to approximately 1 acre by 12:36 p.m. with a moderate rate of spread, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire crews were positioned for structure protection, according to SJFD. Four homes were evacuated before fire officials said in an update that they were no longer threatened.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire was deemed under control by 1:19 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"(San Jose Fire Department)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a3d1aa8b21b2798af6e9050a219f4e95.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(San Jose Fire Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighting efforts impacted nearby traffic. People were advised to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4.;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;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KRON) \u2014 Crews in San Jose responded to a vegetation fire Wednesday afternoon near the Independence High School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[18348,139074,88,16912,90,89,16914],"class_list":["post-336919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-fire-crews","tag-moderate-rate","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-fire-department","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-vegetation-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336919","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=336919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}