{"id":945500,"date":"2020-12-27T16:12:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T22:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=945500"},"modified":"2020-12-28T16:12:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T22:12:02","slug":"family-loses-home-in-christmas-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=945500","title":{"rendered":"Officials warn of fire danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/12\/firefighters-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-945501\" \/>EAST TEXAS &#8212; High winds and dry conditions have been making it unsafe to do outside burning or ignite fireworks in East Texas, fire officials say. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are asking people to voluntarily refrain from doing any outdoor burning or shooting fireworks,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said a statement from the Smith County Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The relative humidity is dropping&#8230;Combined with the high winds, this is a recipe for disaster.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Winds were expected to die down late Sunday and Monday, but officials still urge residents to exercise caution.<!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>A Rusk County family lost their home on Christmas day when a trash fire got out of control and set their house on fire, according to our news partner KETK. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thankfully all members of the family and pets made it safely out of the home,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said information posted by the Crims Chapel Volunteer Fire Department.  Firefighters from throughout northern Smith County on Friday battled a fire that heavily damaged a house on County Road 3147 in Smith County&#8217;s Red Springs community. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. There were no initial reports of injuries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; High winds and dry conditions have been making it unsafe to do outside burning or ignite fireworks in East Texas, fire officials say. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are asking people to voluntarily refrain from doing any outdoor burning or shooting fireworks,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said a statement from the Smith County Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The relative humidity is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=945500\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officials warn of fire danger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"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-945500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 14:26:38","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\/945500","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945550,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945500\/revisions\/945550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}