{"id":28103,"date":"2013-11-14T00:19:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T05:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=28103"},"modified":"2013-11-13T23:31:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T04:31:19","slug":"dry-weather-sparks-brush-fire-concerns-in-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/11\/dry-weather-sparks-brush-fire-concerns-in-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry Weather Sparks Brush <br>Fire Concerns in Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"450\" height=\"253\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/C_k2cIcU4lI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"450\" height=\"253\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/C_k2cIcU4lI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dry and windy weather means the battle begins against brush fires in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On Wednesday, the Florida Forest Service crushed brush near homes in Lehigh Acres. The goal is to reduce danger if and when flames ignite on open lands.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-28108\" title=\"tractor\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tractor-300x176.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tractor-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tractor.png 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you&#8217;ve got 12 foot high palmetto, you&#8217;ve got 24 to 30 foot high flame, said Mike Haschel, with the Florida Forest Service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Experts tell us Southwest Florida&#8217;s hot spots lay in what&#8217;s known as the &#8220;wildland urban interface.&#8221; That&#8217;s areas where there are houses surrounded by brush, like Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With the ground ready to burn, experts say only common sense and preventive measures can protect our paradise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The number one cause of brush fires is humans making poor choices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dry and windy weather means the battle begins against brush fires in Lehigh Acres. On Wednesday, the Florida Forest Service crushed brush near homes in Lehigh Acres. The goal is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}