GILMER\u2014 Power had to be shut down Saturday after a tree feel onto a power line, sparking a fire on Highway 155 near Gilmer. Gilmer firefighters tell KETK the fire started around 12:30 Saturday afternoon in a heavily wooded area near the highway, burning around 3 acres. Gilmer and the Texas Forest Service responded to the fire, and were able to contain and put it out before it damaged any structures. Power was shut off in the area and lanes were shut down for a short period of time as a precaution. No injuries were reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
GILMER\u2014 Power had to be shut down Saturday after a tree feel onto a power line, sparking a fire on Highway 155 near Gilmer. Gilmer firefighters tell KETK the fire started around 12:30 Saturday afternoon in a heavily wooded area near the highway, burning around 3 acres. Gilmer and the Texas Forest Service responded to … Continue reading Gilmer Area Fire Out<\/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-273270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 04:11:10","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\/273270","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=273270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273271,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273270\/revisions\/273271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}