{"id":427460,"date":"2026-08-08T16:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427460\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:32:07","slug":"evacuation-orders-rescinded-for-1057-acre-ridge-fire-in-northern-los-angeles-county-as-containment-reaches-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427460\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuation orders rescinded for 1,057-acre Ridge Fire in northern Los Angeles County as containment reaches 30%"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evacuation orders were lifted on Saturday morning for the Ridge Fire near Gorman in northern Los Angeles County, although crews were still working to fully contain the blaze.<\/p>\n

According to Cal Fire<\/a>, the orders were lifted by 7:10 a.m. The fire spanned about 1,057 acres, as crews worked overnight to maintain containment.<\/p>\n

As of Saturday morning, containment of the blaze was at 30%, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Firefighters continue to provide for structure protection and improve control lines to limit the fire’s progression and to mitigate potential future threat,” the LACFD said in an update at 7 a.m.<\/p>\n

The Ridge Fire was first reported at 2:43 p.m. Friday and quickly spread to about 100 acres by 3:41 p.m. By 9:07 p.m., it spanned about 1,057 acres. It forced crews to shut down both directions of I-5, a key highway bridging Southern California to the Central Valley and the Bay Area, for several hours on Friday evening.<\/p>\n

Evacuation orders were given for a portion of Hungry Valley overnight, although they were rescinded by Saturday morning. Evacuation warnings remain in place for the following zones:<\/p>\n

Los Angeles County<\/p>\n

GOR-E001-AGOR-HUNGRYVALLEY-AGOR-HUNGRYVALLEY-B<\/p>\n

Kern County<\/p>\n

A map of evacuation zones can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The cause remains unknown. It’s not yet clear when Cal Fire expects full containment.<\/p>\n

No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evacuation orders were lifted on Saturday morning for the Ridge Fire near Gorman in northern Los Angeles County,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-427460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427460","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=427460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}