{"id":29209,"date":"2014-01-22T19:41:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T00:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=29209"},"modified":"2014-01-22T19:41:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T00:41:35","slug":"fire-crews-clear-brush-in-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/01\/fire-crews-clear-brush-in-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Crews Clear <br>Brush in Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29210\" title=\"tractor\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tractor-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tractor-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tractor.jpg 617w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>With the cool, dry temperatures that are teaming up with gusty winds and low humidity to create perfect brush fire conditions in Lehigh Acres<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Forest Service does fuel mitigation year round, but this week they&#8217;re focusing on <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=West+9th+Street+lehigh+Acres&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;ei=h2TgUoOoA6atsQT72IDYCA&amp;ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ\">West 9th Street<\/a> in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We are looking to reduce the amount of fuel available to a wildfire in the event that one does start,&#8221; said Heather Ferrand, Florida Forest Service.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Forest Service Crews are currently on standby as the threat increases. The drought index is between 550 and 599 in Charlotte, Lee, Collier and DeSoto counties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The longer we&#8217;ve had without rain, the higher the index goes,&#8221; explained Ferrand.<\/p>\n<p>Factors that make it worse are low humidity, cool temperatures, gusty winds and where you live.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you have homes intermixed with wild lands, you have a higher risk just because of the fuel level and fuel continuity,&#8221; explained Ferrand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the cool, dry temperatures that are teaming up with gusty winds and low humidity to create perfect brush fire conditions in Lehigh Acres The Florida Forest Service does fuel&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29209"}],"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=29209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}