{"id":1100639,"date":"2022-02-20T08:40:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T14:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1100639"},"modified":"2022-02-21T14:30:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T20:30:24","slug":"crews-battle-estimated-219-acre-fire-in-rusk-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1100639","title":{"rendered":"Crews battle estimated 219-acre fire in Rusk County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/02\/fire-175x87.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"87\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1100658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/02\/fire-175x87.png 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/02\/fire.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>RUSK COUNTY &#8212; The Texas Forest Service reported that an estimated 219 acres were burned after multiple agencies battled a grass and woods fire in Rusk County Saturday. According to our news partner KETK, several fire departments were called around 1 p.m. to a location on U.S. Hwy. 259 South. When the crews arrived, they reported 40 acres of a fast-moving fire and requested additional fire departments and a drone for aerial overview. Although Rusk County is not under a burn ban, the county&#8217;s Office of Emergency Management urges extreme caution when burning and asks that no one leave a fire unattended &#8212; or not to burn at all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSK COUNTY &#8212; The Texas Forest Service reported that an estimated 219 acres were burned after multiple agencies battled a grass and woods fire in Rusk County Saturday. According to our news partner KETK, several fire departments were called around 1 p.m. to a location on U.S. Hwy. 259 South. When the crews arrived, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1100639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crews battle estimated 219-acre fire in Rusk County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1100663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/02\/fire-175x87.png","fifu_image_alt":"Crews battle estimated 219-acre fire in Rusk County","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 10:46:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/02\/fire-175x87.png","fifu_image_alt":"Crews battle estimated 219-acre fire in Rusk County","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1100639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100700,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100639\/revisions\/1100700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1100663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}