{"id":1483303,"date":"2026-02-24T18:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1483303"},"modified":"2026-02-26T03:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:12:49","slug":"out-of-control-burn-causes-evacuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1483303","title":{"rendered":"Unextinguished burn causes evacuations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"SMITH COUNTY – Smith County residents in the Swan area, near Lindale, voluntarily evacuated their homes because of a controlled burn that got out of control. Firefighters with Smith County Emergency Services Districts 1 and 2 responded to the fire on FM-3271, near State Highway 69, after the call came in at 1:15 p.m. on Tuesday. Smith County Fire Marshal Chad Hogue said the fire was a controlled burn from Monday that was not properly extinguished.<\/p>\n

The fire, which he estimated to be 30-to-50 acres, is behind the Office Barn\u2019s property. Aircraft were dumping water to help contain the fire that had spread due to heavy winds. The Smith County Fire Marshal\u2019s Office is urging residents to refrain from burning because of the high winds and increased fire danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SMITH COUNTY – Smith County residents in the Swan area, near Lindale, voluntarily evacuated their homes because of a controlled burn that got out of control. Firefighters with Smith County Emergency Services Districts 1 and 2 responded to the fire on FM-3271, near State Highway 69, after the call came in at 1:15 p.m. on … Continue reading Unextinguished burn causes evacuations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1483322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/02\/AIRCRAFT-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 13:01:14","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\/02\/AIRCRAFT-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483303","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=1483303"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483564,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483303\/revisions\/1483564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}