{"id":502605,"date":"2026-10-20T21:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502605\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T21:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:08:09","slug":"brush-fire-in-oakland-hills-above-uc-berkeley-damages-permanently-closed-skyfall-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502605\/","title":{"rendered":"Brush fire in Oakland Hills above UC Berkeley damages permanently closed Skyfall Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) &#8212; Fire crews battled a brush fire in the hills above UC Berkeley Tuesday near a permanently closed estate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Oakland fire officials said that the fire broke out around 11:45 a.m. and the flames reached a home, causing damage to the roof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A total of 75 firefighters responded from multiple agencies and there has been one water drop from a helicopter. As of 1:10 p.m., officials confirmed that forward progress has stopped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The address is 1001 Panoramic Way, which is Skyfall Estate, a permanently closed property sitting atop the hills in Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/19960984_102026-kgo-berkeley-hills-fire.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials asked local residents to shelter in place as crews fought the fire, which they say was made challenging due to the steep hills. They have not given a cause of the fire yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">UC Berkeley sent out a statement saying the fire is above campus but was not impacting campus property or operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Monday and Tuesday mark 35 years since the deadly 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Stay with ABC7 News for updates on this developing story.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) &#8212; Fire crews battled a brush fire in the hills above UC Berkeley Tuesday near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[194571,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-502605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-194571","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502605","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=502605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}