{"id":426882,"date":"2026-08-07T23:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426882\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:34:08","slug":"crews-battling-fire-at-sr-163-near-kearny-villa-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426882\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews battling fire at SR-163 near Kearny Villa Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crews knocked down a small brush fire in the area of Kearny Villa Road and state Route 163 on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A stretch of Kearny Villa Road at state Route 52 was shut down as crews worked to prevent the head of the fire from jumping the road, San Diego Fire-Rescue Department spokesperson Candace Hadley said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-size: 17px;line-height: 1.75;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">The fire grew to 2 acres before being knocked down just after 3:41 p.m., the agency said on social media. Fire officials said crews will stay at the site to douse any remaining hot spots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-size: 17px;line-height: 1.75;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">San Diego police said on social media that law enforcement had shut down the transition ramp from northbound SR-163 to westbound SR-52, and westbound SR-52 to Kearny Villa Road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease be advised there may be additional traffic impacts in the area as crews continue their mop up,\u201d Hadley said.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego police said initial callers reported seeing flames at SR-52 and Interstate 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews knocked down a small brush fire in the area of Kearny Villa Road and state Route 163&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,79,181,23,100,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-426882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-kearny-mesa","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426882","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=426882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}