{"id":500242,"date":"2026-10-18T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500242\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:48:09","slug":"update-campbell-fire-in-san-diego-county-oct-18-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500242\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Campbell Fire in San Diego County &#8211; Oct. 18 status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792338489_98_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: 7:07 a.m. Oct. 18<\/p>\n<p>First discovered: 19 hours ago, 11:47 a.m. Oct. 17<\/p>\n<p>Initial location:  San Diego County, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Fire type: Wildfire<\/p>\n<p>Fire name: Campbell<\/p>\n<p>Campbell Fire initially started at 11:47 a.m. Oct. 17 in San Diego County, California.<\/p>\n<p>It has been burning on private land for 19 hours. Human activity is thought to be the cause of this fire, yet the exact action that sparked it has yet to be identified. At present, there is no information available on the containment of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Historic data<\/p>\n<p>Human activity led to 8,011 fires in California in 2024, according to NIFC data, resulting in 990,939 acres of wildland burned.<\/p>\n<p>Source: National Interagency Fire Center<\/p>\n<p>United Robots Sacramento<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published October 18, 2026 at 7:20 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":500243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-500242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500242","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=500242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}