{"id":52754,"date":"2022-03-28T19:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T23:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=52754"},"modified":"2022-03-28T19:29:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T23:29:39","slug":"atvs-putting-the-lehigh-acres-area-at-risk-of-brush-fires%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/03\/atvs-putting-the-lehigh-acres-area-at-risk-of-brush-fires%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"ATVs putting the Lehigh Acres area at risk of brush fires\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This time of the year, a brush fire can start just about anywhere in Lehigh Acres. With its thousands of vacant, dry overgrown lots, it\u2019s a perfect recipe for a tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-9.png 622w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-9-300x132.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn Lehigh Acres, we still have about 80,000 vacant dry lots,\u201d said Katie Heck from the Lehigh Fire District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amidst an extreme fire danger index for Lee County, Lehigh Acres Fire said the blazes they are fighting are all man-made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"497\" height=\"217\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-1-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-1-3.png 497w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-1-3-300x131.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u201cSo that\u2019s throwing cigarettes out the window, campfires that aren\u2019t properly extinguished, riding ATVs without spark arrestors on them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Lehigh Acres, four-wheelers are everywhere, and Heck said many brush fires they fight are caused by them. However, a simple device, called a spark arrestor can make the difference in whether or not someone loses their home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you are going to ride an ATV through these densely brushed areas, there are established trails, but those sparks can fly off and easily ignite that dry grass.\u201d Heck said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time of the year, a brush fire can start just about anywhere in Lehigh Acres. With its thousands of vacant, dry overgrown lots, it\u2019s a perfect recipe for a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":52756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52754"}],"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=52754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52757,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52754\/revisions\/52757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}