{"id":498547,"date":"2026-10-16T22:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/498547\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T22:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:26:12","slug":"evacuation-orders-issued-as-wildfire-burns-in-orange-county-california-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/498547\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuation orders issued as wildfire burns in Orange County, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Evacuation orders have been issued for parts of Orange County, California, due to an active fire, with authorities warning of an &#8220;immediate threat to life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Norte Fire ignited midday Friday in San Clemente and has burned 250 acres so far, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The vegetation fire is threatening multiple structures, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Crews are aggressively attacking the fire from the ground and air. Please continue to avoid the area,&#8221; the Orange County Fire Authority said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Evacuation orders have been <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2026\/10\/16\/norte-fire#section--evac-alerts\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">issued for parts of Orange County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire comes amid critical fire weather conditions in the region, including strong Santa Ana winds and high heat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Red flag warnings are in effect for Los Angeles and Ventura counties and the Antelope Valley foothills through Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evacuation orders have been issued for parts of Orange County, California, due to an active fire, with authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[193520,7,9,8],"class_list":["post-498547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-193520","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498547","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=498547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}