{"id":394097,"date":"2026-07-11T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394097\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:02:09","slug":"tracy-grass-fire-damages-structures-and-vehicles-forces-evacuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394097\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy grass fire damages structures and vehicles, forces evacuations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A grass fire in Tracy on Friday damaged several structures and vehicles while prompting precautionary evacuations, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The South San Joaquin Fire Authority said firefighters responded just before 2:40 p.m. to the area of Spring Court near West Schulte Road, Sycamore Parkway and nearby railroad tracks after reports of a vegetation fire.<\/p>\n<p>Crews arrived to find a field burning near the tracks. Fueled by high winds, the fire spread quickly through dry vegetation and damaged two outbuildings, two trailers and several vehicles, the fire authority said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/08aa9018-f03e-4091-8248-6ac97d52587f.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"tracy grass fire 1 \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                South San Joaquin Fire Authority<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4c697679-9b1d-4699-813c-c9b70235b448.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"tracy grass fire 2 \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                South San Joaquin Fire Authority<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters said multiple homes were threatened as the flames spread, prompting an aggressive fire attack to protect nearby properties.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of homes in the immediate path of the fire were evacuated as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews were able to stop the forward progress of the blaze at about two acres. While no homes were destroyed, officials said a couple of residences sustained minor exterior damage.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A grass fire in Tracy on Friday damaged several structures and vehicles while prompting precautionary evacuations, officials said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[112993,121,123,122,13722,20531],"class_list":["post-394097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-grass-fire","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-san-joaquin-county","tag-tracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394097","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=394097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}