{"id":502585,"date":"2026-10-20T20:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502585\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T20:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:44:09","slug":"fire-crews-battle-blaze-in-oakland-berkeley-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502585\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Crews Battle Blaze in Oakland-Berkeley Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vegetation fire that started just before noon Tuesday has spread a half acre and has impacted at least one structure.<\/p>\n<p>Oct 20, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Updated 1:28 pm PT<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/A46A4880-e4fb178c-scaled-e1792525820759.jpeg\"   width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Crews fight the Panoramic Fire in the Berkeley Hills on Oct. 20, 2026.\u00a0(Martin do Nascimento\/KQED)<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/wildfires\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vegetation fire<\/a> broke out in the Oakland-Berkeley Hills late Tuesday morning, according to Oakland fire officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">The blaze started around 11:45 a.m. on the 1000 block of Panoramic Way, above UC Berkeley\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">About a half-acre of vegetation had burned by 12:30 p.m., and at least 60 firefighters from departments across the East Bay, including Oakland and Berkeley, were on scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">According to Oakland Fire Department spokesperson Michael Hunt, no injuries or fatalities have been reported, and no evacuations have been ordered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">One structure has been impacted, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The vegetation fire that started just before noon Tuesday has spread a half acre and has impacted at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-502585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502585","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=502585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}