{"id":1300997,"date":"2024-02-27T08:08:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T14:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1300997"},"modified":"2024-03-04T14:07:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T20:07:49","slug":"officials-warn-residents-following-weekend-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1300997","title":{"rendered":"Officials ask residents to avoid burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1301523\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/texsas-ap-fires--225x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/texsas-ap-fires--225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/texsas-ap-fires-.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c According to our news partner KETK, the Smith County Fire Marshal is urging residents to avoid burning. Over the last few days, several wildfires fueled by current windy and dry conditions started across East Texas. The Texas A&amp;M Forest Service reported dozens of East Texas fires since Friday. Between Saturday and Sunday, the Smith County Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office had to respond to nearly 30 grass fires. Gregg County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office is also raising awareness of the danger of burning, after battling a 10-acre contained fire that got out of control this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We Responded to 60 wildfires for a total of 5,136 acres with 58 of them in East Texas alone,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Laura Stevens, Texas A&amp;M Forest Service wildland urban interface coordinator. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The wind played a factor in it and the humidity over the afternoon dipped down to as low as 18% which is extremely low,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Chad Hogue, Smith County Fire Marshal. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The whole state saw increase dry and windy conditions over this weekend so that was a factor in all of them,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Stevens. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Really don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recommend burning in the next three days it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be up to I believe 30 mph winds in our area,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Hogue.<\/p>\n<p>Hogue also explained that whoever starts a fire is also responsible for its spreading.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We want to stress not to leave a fire unattended. There were several cases of that, and the wind just changes it so fast. It can really get it out of control quickly. We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want them putting people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lives, homes and structures in danger and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I mean, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just not worth it in the next few days,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Hogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c According to our news partner KETK, the Smith County Fire Marshal is urging residents to avoid burning. Over the last few days, several wildfires fueled by current windy and dry conditions started across East Texas. The Texas A&amp;M Forest Service reported dozens of East Texas fires since Friday. Between Saturday and Sunday, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1300997\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officials ask residents to avoid burning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1300999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/texsas-ap-fires--225x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Officials warn residents following weekend fires","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 10:32:52","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\/2024\/02\/texsas-ap-fires--225x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Officials warn residents following weekend fires","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300997","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1300997"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301618,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300997\/revisions\/1301618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1300999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}