{"id":1245619,"date":"2023-07-22T17:49:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T22:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1245619"},"modified":"2023-07-26T01:21:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T06:21:07","slug":"smith-county-fire-marshals-office-discourages-outdoor-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1245619","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office discourages outdoor burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-522374\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Fire-Marshal-Logo-179x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Fire-Marshal-Logo-179x200.png 179w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Fire-Marshal-Logo.png 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Smith County Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office is encouraging citizens to postpone any outdoor burning as drought conditions worsen. Our news partners at KETK report that Officials said the county isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t under a burn ban yet but the Keetch-Byram Drought Index is expected to rise daily. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153While the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) remains in the low 500 range for Smith County, it is expected to rise daily if the area doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t receive significant rainfall. Historically, the County has implemented a burn ban when the KBDI reaches the mid-600 to 700 range. However, officials also monitor weather conditions and forecasts, along with the daily incident responses from fire departments throughout the county.<!--more--> Currently, incident responses to grass fires are approximately half the amount as compared to this time last year.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>SMITH COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S OFFICE<\/strong><br \/>\nThe fire marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office is asking the public to be safe during any outdoor burning by always watching the fire and keeping water, shovels and rakes nearby.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The firefighters in this county have done an outstanding job of controlling these fires. With the intense heat that our area has experienced, firefighters are tasked with a tremendously strenuous job. We can assist them by keeping their call volume down through proactive prevention measures.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Smith County Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office is encouraging citizens to postpone any outdoor burning as drought conditions worsen. Our news partners at KETK report that Officials said the county isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t under a burn ban yet but the Keetch-Byram Drought Index is expected to rise daily. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153While the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) remains in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1245619\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office discourages outdoor burning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1245622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Fire-Marshal-Logo-179x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office discourages outdoor burning","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 07:23:06","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\/2016\/08\/Fire-Marshal-Logo-179x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office discourages outdoor burning","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245619","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245760,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245619\/revisions\/1245760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}