{"id":44742,"date":"2025-11-09T01:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/44742\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T01:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:24:10","slug":"air-tankers-fire-crews-battling-brush-fire-near-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/44742\/","title":{"rendered":"Air tankers, fire crews battling brush fire near border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0.BF1_.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0.BF1_.jpg\" alt=\"Several grassy ridges over which a haze of smoke rises due to a brush fire\" class=\"wp-image-354590\"  \/><\/a>A haze of smoke from Border Fire 18 covers the landscape on Saturday. (Photo courtesy of CalFire San Diego via Alert California)<\/p>\n<p>A brush fire burned dozens of acres Saturday south of Dulzura in the Marron Valley area, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CalFire San Diego<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Border 18 Fire broke out shortly after 2 p.m. along Marron Valley Road in the back country not far from the U.S.-Mexico border. A second-alarm response and four additional air tankers were requested by the incident commander at about 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>As of 5 p.m., the fire\u2019s progress had stalled, with the blaze consuming 60 acres. Firefighters, CalFire said, had the flames 10% contained and were \u201cfocusing on building containment lines around the perimeter of the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By 3:20 p.m. officials had estimated the size at 50 acres, according to radio traffic from the incident commander; 10 minutes later, it had grown to 60 acres, according to a CalFire social media post.<\/p>\n<p>Air tankers, bulldozers, engines, trucks, water tenders and hand crews from throughout the region were responding to the brush fire.<\/p>\n<p>Two injuries were reported. An ambulance was called to treat someone with a scorpion bite, while another person suffered a knee injury, according to radio traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were assembling at the South Bay Rod &amp; Gun Club on Marron Valley Road.<\/p>\n<p>Updated 5:20 p.m. Nov. 8, 2025<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A haze of smoke from Border Fire 18 covers the landscape on Saturday. (Photo courtesy of CalFire San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[29574,29575,29576,74,76,75,29577],"class_list":["post-44742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-brush-fires","tag-calfire-san-diego","tag-dulzura","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-u-s-mexican-border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44742","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=44742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}