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HENDERSON COUNTY – Our news partner, KETK, reports that several counties across East Texas are seeing a higher risk of fires due to recent high winds and dry weather.<\/p>\nHENDERSON COUNTY – Our news partner, KETK, reports that several counties across East Texas are seeing a higher risk of fires due to recent high winds and dry weather.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of this is from people either just burning trash or trying to do controlled burns that get out of control with the current wind conditions that we\u2019re experiencing,\u201d South Van Zandt Volunteer Fire Department Deputy Chief David Birdsong said. He says the high call numbers are already putting a strain on their crews and resources.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re doing what\u2019s called emergency staffing. What that means is we have individuals that are willing to come in and staff the stations and be ready at a moment\u2019s notice.\u201d <\/p>\n
In Henderson County, firefighters have been battling a high number of fires all week, warning that this weather can make small fires turn dangerous quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of fires. Forestry services they worked 25 fires yesterday,\u201d Henderson County Fire Marshal Laura Good said. \u201cThe fires are getting bigger before we get there because they\u2019re being wind driven,\u201d Good said. <\/p>\n
The bigger the fire, the more water it takes to contain it. That\u2019s something both Henderson and Van Zandt counties are concerned about due to their lack of easy water access.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to have tankers bring water to the location or at least close enough,\u201d Good said. <\/p>\n
Many of the recent fires they\u2019ve responded to started as controlled burns that got out of hand. This is requiring departments to staff up their station for faster response times when the call comes in.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it\u2019s blowing hard enough to blow something out of your hand then you should not be burning anything outside,\u201d Good said. <\/p>\n
They want residents to know that they\u2019re taking precautions and are asking everyone else to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HENDERSON COUNTY – Our news partner, KETK, reports that several counties across East Texas are seeing a higher risk of fires due to recent high winds and dry weather. \u201cSome of this is from people either just burning trash or trying to do controlled burns that get out of control with the current wind conditions … Continue reading East Texas fire departments taking extra precautions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1399156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/03\/VanZandt-Fire-dept-e1742573829777-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 03:35:25","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\/2025\/03\/VanZandt-Fire-dept-e1742573829777-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399144","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=1399144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399155,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399144\/revisions\/1399155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1399156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}