{"id":380463,"date":"2015-08-03T11:43:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T16:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=380463"},"modified":"2015-08-04T12:38:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T17:38:31","slug":"hot-dry-conditions-increase-fire-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=380463","title":{"rendered":"Hot, Dry Conditions Increase Fire Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/firefighters-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/firefighters-1-200x133.jpg\" alt=\"firefighters-1\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-380468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/firefighters-1-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/firefighters-1.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Firefighters are staying busy in East Texas, with several grass fires emerging as hot, dry conditions persist.  KETK reports that while things are off to a late start this year, crews do expect to be fighting fires all the way through October.  &#8220;The rain pushed it back,&#8221; says Kelcey Trotty, fire commander at the scene of one fire in Smith County. &#8220;We had all that rain for a little while.  (It) kept everything nice and wet, and once it shut off we had pretty heavy vegetation growth. Now that it&#8217;s all shut off, we still have the vegetation without the water.&#8221;  Texas is not in a drought but firefighters expect Smith County to consider a burn ban soon, especially if we don&#8217;t see more rain. Even if that burn ban doesn&#8217;t happen, officials advise East Texans to be extra careful when burning trash or debris. That way, we can avoid flames getting out of control in drier areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Firefighters are staying busy in East Texas, with several grass fires emerging as hot, dry conditions persist. KETK reports that while things are off to a late start this year, crews do expect to be fighting fires all the way through October. &#8220;The rain pushed it back,&#8221; says Kelcey Trotty, fire commander at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=380463\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hot, Dry Conditions Increase Fire Danger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":380468,"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-380463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 13:51:41","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\/380463","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=380463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380613,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380463\/revisions\/380613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/380468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}