{"id":48988,"date":"2021-05-30T23:29:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T03:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=48988"},"modified":"2021-05-30T23:29:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T03:29:40","slug":"three-wildfires-are-blazing-in-collier-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/05\/three-wildfires-are-blazing-in-collier-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Three wildfires are blazing in Collier County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Be safe if you&#8217;re in the following areas. If you have any photos you&#8217;d like to share, you can post them in the comments below, or send them to <a href=\"mailto:lehighacresgazette@gmail.com\">lehighacresgazette@gmail.com<\/a> from Florida Forest Service as of 6:15 p.m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NAPLESNEWS-Embed Player\" width=\"540\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/uw-media.naplesnews.com\/embed\/video\/100763628?placement=snow-embed\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Three wildfires are burning in Collier County as crews push to smother the flames before the first rainstorms of the season. These&nbsp;fires come&nbsp;one week after a large fire destroyed two homes in Golden Gate Estates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 60-acre&nbsp;wildfire&nbsp;in Picayune Strand State Forest is burning near 80th Avenue SE. The blaze&nbsp;is 60 percent contained&nbsp;as seven fire crews&nbsp;work the fire, according to the&nbsp;Florida Forest Service Caloosahatchee Center. A separate fire of 10-15 acres burns near 112th Avenue SE and is 60&nbsp;percent contained with six dozers working the blaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A third wildfire of 25\u00a0acres is burning in east Collier County\u00a0and is 80\u00a0percent contained with two bulldozer crews and an air unit are on-site. The fire flared up near Sanders Boulevard and the Sabal Palm Hiking Trail. All three wildfires began Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No structures are threatened by the fires, and they are not too dangerous to the crews, said Melinda Avni,&nbsp; a mitigation specialist for the Florida Forest Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just taking no chances given the terrain and weather,&#8221; Avni said via text message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be safe if you&#8217;re in the following areas. If you have any photos you&#8217;d like to share, you can post them in the comments below, or send them to lehighacresgazette@gmail.com&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48988"}],"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=48988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48990,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48988\/revisions\/48990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}