{"id":41759,"date":"2016-11-19T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41759"},"modified":"2016-11-19T01:00:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T06:00:49","slug":"downed-power-lines-ignite-a-brush-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/11\/downed-power-lines-ignite-a-brush-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Downed Power Lines Ignite a Brush Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Lehigh Acres Gazette Staff<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41760\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41760\" title=\"medium_dozer.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/medium_dozer.jpg-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/medium_dozer.jpg-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/medium_dozer.jpg.jpg 355w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>People living along Buckingham Road and Ada Avenue saw the fire from across the street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything caught on fire it was insane for about an hour,&#8221; said Sean Fields who was home during this event<\/p>\n<p>The Fields called 911 and watched firefighters from their front lawn. They watched nervously as crews fought the fire and the downed power lines.<\/p>\n<p>Those live power lines were just shooting flames and catching on fire, it was crazy, said Lisa Fields.<\/p>\n<p>A few high school students who tried to film a project for class got caught in the middle of it all.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The power line actually fell on top of the car after they got out of it. I told them they need to go play the lottery because there&#8217;s no reason for them to be alive right now, said Fields.<\/p>\n<p>FPL and the multi fire departments were able to get the situation under control with 30 mins.<\/p>\n<p>The Fields are just thankful it wasn&#8217;t worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lehigh Acres Gazette Staff People living along Buckingham Road and Ada Avenue saw the fire from across the street. &#8220;Everything caught on fire it was insane for about an&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41760,"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\/41759"}],"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=41759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}