{"id":1353202,"date":"2024-09-09T03:15:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T08:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1353202"},"modified":"2024-09-11T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T13:29:08","slug":"rusk-county-fires-threatening-multiple-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1353202","title":{"rendered":"Several fire departments contain 13-acre pasture fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/2024-09-10_034812-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1353496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/2024-09-10_034812-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/2024-09-10_034812.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><strong>UPDATE: Nine local fire departments worked together to contain a 13-acre pasture fire Sunday evening and two structures were saved, Elderville-Lakeport Volunteer Fire Department said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We ask that you use extreme caution when burning outdoors,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d officials said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The relative humidity will be low for the next few days, and fires will grow rapidly with the wind.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Elderville-Lakeport VFD said it took over two hours to contain the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Rusk County Commissioners had discussed a burn ban for the county but decided that the weather doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t require that right now.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153So right now we are still in a holding pattern. We have not implemented a burn ban yet for Rusk County,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Rusk County Fire Marshal, Patrick Dooley. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to continue to watch the weather, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to continue to watch our drought index, the KBDI, as well winds, weather just in general, is what we watch.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>As things dry out for the fall, officials are asking anyone burning brush outdoors to stay aware of their fires and to notify local firefighters when you burn.<\/p>\n<p>RUSK COUNTY, Texas (KETK) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Rusk County Office of Emergency Management and Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office is responding to several fires threatening homes in north Rusk County.<br \/>\n3 in custody after dead body found in trunk of burning car in East Texas<\/p>\n<p>Officials said that eight fire departments, the Rusk County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office, the Texas A&#038;M Forest Service and Rusk County OEM responded to fight one fire near Lake Cherokee on State Highway 322. The Texas A&#038;M Forest Service incident viewer listed that fire as being 13-acres-wide and 100% contained as of 7:25 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Nine local fire departments worked together to contain a 13-acre pasture fire Sunday evening and two structures were saved, Elderville-Lakeport Volunteer Fire Department said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We ask that you use extreme caution when burning outdoors,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d officials said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The relative humidity will be low for the next few days, and fires will grow rapidly with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1353202\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Several fire departments contain 13-acre pasture fire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1353208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/2024-09-10_034812-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 09:33:44","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\/09\/2024-09-10_034812-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353202","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=1353202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353497,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353202\/revisions\/1353497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1353208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1353202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1353202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1353202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}