{"id":1449620,"date":"2025-10-15T17:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1449620"},"modified":"2025-10-21T03:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:25:01","slug":"smith-county-warns-against-outdoor-burning-due-to-dry-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1449620","title":{"rendered":"Smith County warns against outdoor burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1449621\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/smithcuntyfirearshall-174x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/smithcuntyfirearshall-174x200.png 174w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/smithcuntyfirearshall.png 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Officials in Smith County are asking residents to refrain from burning due to increased fire danger. Smith County is not issuing a burn ban. According to the Smith County Fire Marshal\u2019s Office and our news partner KETK, the increased fire danger is due to unusually dry conditions this month, which was caused by the county experiencing an abnormally wet spring, early summer and robust grass crop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to this year\u2019s robust grass crop that is now becoming drought-cured and dehydrated, fire behavior and resistance to control will likely increase,\u201d the Smith County Fire Marshal\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Officials in Smith County are asking residents to refrain from burning due to increased fire danger. Smith County is not issuing a burn ban. According to the Smith County Fire Marshal\u2019s Office and our news partner KETK, the increased fire danger is due to unusually dry conditions this month, which was caused &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1449620\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County warns against outdoor burning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1449913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/smithcuntyfirearshall-174x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 17:15:13","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\/10\/smithcuntyfirearshall-174x200.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449620","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449620"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451383,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449620\/revisions\/1451383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1449913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}