{"id":42270,"date":"2017-01-02T12:04:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T17:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=42270"},"modified":"2017-01-02T12:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T17:04:23","slug":"brush-fire-may-have-ignited-by-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2017\/01\/brush-fire-may-have-ignited-by-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Brush Fire May Have Ignited By Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Lehigh Acres Gazette Staff<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-42271\" title=\"brush fire\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/brush-fire-300x117.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/brush-fire-300x117.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/brush-fire.png 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Brush fire flames were contained Saturday night at the intersection of Pullman Street and Pendleton Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The fire happened around 7:30 p.m. The blaze scorched between approximately half an acre of land, but no homes were in danger, according to a Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District lieutenant.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Acres Fire District says the cause of the fire is still under investigation, though fireworks likely started it, a witness said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters and the Florida Forest Service tackled the flames until around 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Lehigh Acres Fire District says embers were landing on neighbors&#8217; rooftops threatening the lives of those inside the homes.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters say Saturday&#8217;s conditions were dry and humid enough for this sort of fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lehigh Acres Gazette Staff Brush fire flames were contained Saturday night at the intersection of Pullman Street and Pendleton Avenue. The fire happened around 7:30 p.m. The blaze scorched&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42271,"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\/42270"}],"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=42270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}