{"id":5840,"date":"2026-10-11T22:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/11\/bike-fire-burns-172-acres-forces-evacuations\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T22:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:40:46","slug":"bike-fire-burns-172-acres-forces-evacuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/11\/bike-fire-burns-172-acres-forces-evacuations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Fire Burns 172 Acres, Forces Evacuations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> SANTA CLARITA, CA \u2013 October 11, 2026 (STL.News) A fast-moving brush fire swept hillsides near Santa Clarita on Sunday afternoon, burning about 172 acres, threatening residential neighborhoods, and prompting mandatory evacuation orders as firefighters launched an aggressive ground and aerial response. The wildfire, identified as the Bike Fire, erupted near Camdria Estates Lane and Ravenhill Road in the Sand Canyon area, northeast of Los Angeles. Flames spread rapidly through vegetation and rugged terrain, forcing officials to expand evacuation orders as crews worked to keep the fire from reaching nearby homes. <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FCIcGlCh6iGc%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bike Fire: Santa Clarita brush fire burns at least 172 acres, prompting evacuation orders\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CIcGlCh6iGc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> By approximately 7 p.m. Pacific time, officials with<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/bike-fire-burns-172-acres-forces-evacuations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA CLARITA, CA \u2013 October 11, 2026 (STL.News) A fast-moving brush fire swept hillsides near Santa Clarita on Sunday afternoon, burning about 172 acres, threatening residential neighborhoods, and prompting mandatory evacuation orders as firefighters launched an aggressive ground and aerial&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5842,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions\/5842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}