{"id":454511,"date":"2026-09-05T13:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454511\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T13:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:02:20","slug":"fire-crews-mop-up-gibby-fire-in-south-oc-ortega-highway-closure-in-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454511\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Crews Mop Up Gibby Fire In South OC; Ortega Highway Closure In Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"25354323-1788467523\" data-image=\"25354323-1788467523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_2059.jpeg\" data- \/>Smoke from the Gibby Fire was visible from South Orange County (Paige Austin\/Patch) <\/p>\n<p>As of about 7:30 p.m., forward progress on the blaze was stopped at around 216 acres and all shelter-in-place orders had been lifted, although Ortega Highway remained closed from Gateway Place to Grand Avenue in Riverside County, according to the Orange County Fire Authority. As of 11:35 p.m. Wednesday, the fire was still at 0 percent containment. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the OCFA announced that one of its drones flew over the burn area overnight and determined the blaze actually burned 217 acres of terrain, and the blaze was 5% contained, although the flames were no longer spreading. Crews remained on the scene conducting mop-up operations, dousing any remaining hotspots, while extending the containment line around the burn area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smoke from the Gibby Fire was visible from South Orange County (Paige Austin\/Patch) As of about 7:30 p.m.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-454511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454511","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=454511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}