{"id":364800,"date":"2026-06-17T22:01:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364800\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:01:53","slug":"brush-fire-burns-near-homes-in-stevenson-ranch-west-of-i-5-in-santa-clarita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364800\/","title":{"rendered":"Brush fire burns near homes in Stevenson Ranch west of I-5 in Santa Clarita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A brush fire burned dangerously close to homes near Santa Clarita on Monday afternoon, with flames pushing through dense brush on a hillside in the Stevenson Ranch neighborhood, according to multiple sources.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Max Fire&#8221; was reported around 4:30 p.m. in a hiking area just west of the 5 Freeway, according to CalFire. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2026\/6\/15\/max-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">It was reported initially at 31 acres<\/a>. Its current acreage is unknown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/stevenson-ranch-max-fire-santa-clarita-valley-los-angeles-county-evacuations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS LA reports that the fire began in a hiking area of Pico Canyon Park near Magnolia Lane and Autumn Place, per the Los Angeles County Fire Department.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flames were seen burning near a cul-de-sac lined with homes, on PG&amp;E&#8217;s cameras.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: ALERTCalifornia\/UC San Diego\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0320ae6c-6696-4b99-90ea-444a9831f7cd-image13.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: ALERTCalifornia\/UC San Diego<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews continued battling the blaze on the ground and from the air. No additional details on evacuations, injuries or containment were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>For more on evacuations, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/protect.genasys.com\/search?z=13.362248751345463&amp;latlon=34.374091285705575%2C-118.58271385472472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">protect.genasys.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A brush fire burned dangerously close to homes near Santa Clarita on Monday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-364800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364800","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=364800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}