UPDATE (6:25 p.m.) – CAL FIRE SLO reports that forward progress of the fire has been stopped and all evacuation orders are lifted.
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UPDATE (6 p.m.) – The Bear Fire has grown to 543 acres and is 60% contained as of 6 p.m. Tuesday.
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UPDATE (4:47 p.m.) – The Bear Fire has grown to 300 acres. The cause is under investigation.<\/p>\n
Mandatory evacuations are in place for the following zones:<\/p>\n
SLC-228SLC-240SLC-241SLC-299<\/p>\n
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UPDATE (4:20 p.m.) – Evacuation orders have been issued for the area south of 7 Mile Road, East of Elkhorn Road, and north of Arrowhead Trail in California Valley, according to CAL FIRE. <\/p>\n
The fire has reportedly grown to 180 acres.<\/p>\n
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office says it’s sending some units to the area to assist CAL FIRE with evacuations.
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UPDATE (3:55 p.m.) – The fire could burn more than 300 acres, according to fire officials. Additional resources, including five engines, were ordered.
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ORIGINAL STORY: Fire crews are responding to a vegetation fire that broke out in California Valley Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
It was first reported shortly after 3 p.m. near Black Bear Road. By 3:20 p.m., CAL FIRE SLO reported that fire had grown to about 100 acres and was burning in grass with a moderate rate of spread. <\/p>\n
This is a developing story and will be updated as information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE (6:25 p.m.) – CAL FIRE SLO reports that forward progress of the fire has been stopped and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-390085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390085","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=390085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}