{"id":114162,"date":"2011-08-05T02:45:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T07:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=114162"},"modified":"2011-08-06T07:53:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T12:53:16","slug":"grass-fires-plague-the-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=114162","title":{"rendered":"Grass Fires Plague the Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=114163\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-114163\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/08\/wildfire3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wildfire3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-114163\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEAST TEXAS \u2013 Grass fires kept area fire fighters busy Thursday. In Smith County, a large grass fire started around 3:00pm in the 13,000 block of County Road 1141. It started when a farmer was cutting hay and the blade hit a rock that caused sparks.  Around a dozen structures were in danger at one time.<\/p>\n<p>In the Winona area, a grass fire was reported around 5:00 yesterday afternoon off County Road 254. A storage building was destroyed before the fire was contained. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly ten acres burned in a grass fire on Cherokee Street in Longview. The fire produced thick, black smoke because of several hundred tires that caught fire. No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire has not been determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS \u2013 Grass fires kept area fire fighters busy Thursday. In Smith County, a large grass fire started around 3:00pm in the 13,000 block of County Road 1141. It started when a farmer was cutting hay and the blade hit a rock that caused sparks. Around a dozen structures were in danger at one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=114162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grass Fires Plague the Area<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 21:46:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114162","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114162"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114411,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114162\/revisions\/114411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}