{"id":167309,"date":"2012-02-24T09:37:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T15:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=167309"},"modified":"2012-02-25T16:43:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T22:43:43","slug":"grass-fire-blamed-for-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=167309","title":{"rendered":"Grass Fire Blamed for Power Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=167310\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-167310\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/02\/Judsonfire-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Judsonfire\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-167310\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; High winds are being blamed for a 5-acre Gregg County grass fire and an outage that left more than 4,200 county residents without electricity Thursday afternoon. Firefighters from multiple departments responded to a reported wildfire near Fuller and Huckaby roads, and AEP Southwestern Electric Power Co. officials were called to the Kilgore area to remove a tree that fell on a 69,000-volt transformer, which knocked out power to 4,279 Gregg County residents. <\/p>\n<p>According to KETK, firefighters from Judson Metro, East Mountain and Longview departments and the Texas Forest Service were called to the grass fire about 1:30.  Texas Forest Service Emergency Operation Center Coordinator Don Hannemann said the fire had been contained by 3:15. Longview Fire Marshal Johnny Zackary said his department was called to provide aid to the Judson Metro Volunteer Fire Department because there were three homes in danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; High winds are being blamed for a 5-acre Gregg County grass fire and an outage that left more than 4,200 county residents without electricity Thursday afternoon. Firefighters from multiple departments responded to a reported wildfire near Fuller and Huckaby roads, and AEP Southwestern Electric Power Co. officials were called to the Kilgore area &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=167309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grass Fire Blamed for Power Outage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 07:52:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167309","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167309"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167574,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167309\/revisions\/167574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}