{"id":73694,"date":"2026-05-18T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/fast-growing-southern-california-brush-fire-prompts-evacuation-orders\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:00:10","slug":"fast-growing-southern-california-brush-fire-prompts-evacuation-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/fast-growing-southern-california-brush-fire-prompts-evacuation-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast-growing southern California brush fire prompts evacuation orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire reported in Simi Valley, north-west of LA, as mandatory evacuation orders were issued for over 20,000 residents<\/p>\n<p>A fast-growing brush fire ignited on Monday morning in southern California, prompting evacuation orders and damaging at least one home.<\/p>\n<p>The Sandy<strong> <\/strong>fire was reported just after 10am in Simi Valley, a city in Ventura county about 30 miles north-west of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/18\/simi-valley-fire-california-evacuations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire reported in Simi Valley, north-west of LA, as mandatory evacuation orders were issued for over 20,000 residents A fast-growing brush fire ignited on Monday morning in southern California, prompting evacuation orders and damaging at least one home. The Sandy fire was reported just after 10am in Simi Valley, a city in Ventura county about &#8230; <a title=\"Fast-growing southern California brush fire prompts evacuation orders\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/fast-growing-southern-california-brush-fire-prompts-evacuation-orders\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fast-growing southern California brush fire prompts evacuation orders\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}