{"id":499567,"date":"2026-10-17T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499567\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:10:09","slug":"update-sand-fire-burns-75-acres-in-merced-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499567\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Sand Fire burns 75 acres in Merced County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792271409_914_904274ad-cc18-4c6a-b772-fd81b276817c.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Updates on California wildfires.\" alt=\"Updates on California wildfires.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Updates on California wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom. Read more on our AI policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Updated: 1:03 p.m. Oct. 17<\/p>\n<p>First discovered: 11:24 a.m. Oct. 17<\/p>\n<p>Initial location: Sand Slough Road &amp; Turner Island Road, Dos Palos, Merced County, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Fire unit: Cal Fire Madera-Mariposa-Merced Unit<\/p>\n<p>Fire type: Wildfire<\/p>\n<p>Fire name: Sand Fire<\/p>\n<p>Sand Fire initially started today at 11:24 a.m. at Sand Slough Road &amp; Turner Island Road, Dos Palos in Merced County, California.<\/p>\n<p>It has burned 75 acres by Saturday afternoon, an increase of 75 acres since the last update.<\/p>\n<p>There is currently no information on the containment or cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Cal Fire<\/p>\n<p>United Robots Sacramento<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published October 17, 2026 at 11:54 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updates on California wildfires. The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-499567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499567","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=499567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}