{"id":1471171,"date":"2026-01-14T15:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1471171"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:04:05","slug":"grass-fire-in-smith-county-forces-evacuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1471171","title":{"rendered":"Grass fire forces evacuations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/grasfire-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1471173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/grasfire-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/grasfire-349x350.jpg 349w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/grasfire.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: According to ESD2, the fire is nearly extinguished and residents are allowed to return to their homes.<\/p>\n<p>TYLER  \u2014 Crews are responding to a grass fire off County Road 219 in Smith County on Wednesday. Since then, residents were asked to evacuate as a precaution. According to our news partner KETK, Smith County ESD2 said several crews responded to the fire on Haverhill Road off CR 219, but no structural damage was reported due to barriers placed around surrounding houses. Officials confirmed no injuries were reported. <\/p>\n<p>The fire is believed to have quickly progressed due to windy conditions. Earlier, the Smith County Fire Marshal\u2019s Office urged residents to refrain from burning as winds are predicted to be 15 to 25 mph with higher gusts possible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: According to ESD2, the fire is nearly extinguished and residents are allowed to return to their homes. TYLER \u2014 Crews are responding to a grass fire off County Road 219 in Smith County on Wednesday. Since then, residents were asked to evacuate as a precaution. According to our news partner KETK, Smith County ESD2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1471171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grass fire forces evacuations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1471192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/grasfire-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 05:06:16","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\/2026\/01\/grasfire-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471171","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=1471171"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471297,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471171\/revisions\/1471297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1471192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1471171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1471171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1471171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}