{"id":437983,"date":"2026-08-20T04:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437983\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T04:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:08:12","slug":"evacuations-lifted-forward-progress-halted-on-brush-fire-near-harbison-canyon-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437983\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuations lifted, forward progress halted on brush fire near Harbison Canyon \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evacuations were ordered Wednesday afternoon \u2014 but lifted a few hours later \u2014\u00a0as crews battled a fast-moving fire south of Harbison Canyon in rural East County, stopping its forward march at about 93 acres.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was in the area of Dehesa Road east of Stallion Oaks Road, northeast of Sycuan Casino Resort, and moved at a \u201cdangerous\u201d rate of spread, Cal Fire Capt. Joshua Cormode said, noting that it \u201cjust consumed the entire hillside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Alpine, CA - Crews battle the Dehesa fire on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026, near Alpine, CA. (Luke Johnson \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)\" width=\"4000\" height=\"481\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SUT-L-Dehesa-Fire-008.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"10002820\" \/>Crews battle a fire Wednesday near Alpine. (Luke Johnson \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a completely slope-driven fire,\u201d Cormode said. \u201cThis thing just moved exceptionally fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The call came in about 3:30 p.m., according to a Cal Fire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2026\/8\/19\/dehesa-7-fire\/updates\/132ab32e-10d2-48d8-b0ae-4ff78efd41bb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">incident status update<\/a>. Shortly after 5 p.m., the agency posted on X that the forward progress of the fire had been stopped. As of early evening, the fire footprint was about 5% contained.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/08\/19\/photos-the-dehesa-fire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Photos: The Dehesa fire<\/a><\/p>\n<p>People in the area from Red Gum Road east to Tavern Road were initially <a href=\"https:\/\/protect.genasys.com\/en?lat=32.8078&amp;lng=-116.8041&amp;z=12.3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">under evacuation orders<\/a>, according to the Genasys Protect app county officials use to communicate evacuations. The orders were lifted shortly after 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Dehesa Road was closed from Willson Road to Harbinson Canyon Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evacuations were ordered Wednesday afternoon \u2014 but lifted a few hours later \u2014\u00a0as crews battled a fast-moving fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,3053,181,23,100,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-437983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-east-county","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\/437983","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=437983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}