{"id":52912,"date":"2022-04-07T15:33:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T19:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=52912"},"modified":"2022-04-07T15:34:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T19:34:02","slug":"brushfire-caused-by-child-playing-with-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/04\/brushfire-caused-by-child-playing-with-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushfire caused by child playing with fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Officials say a brush fire that sparked in eastern Lehigh Acres was caused by a child playing with fireworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Columbus Blvd is closed between Pisa and Capri. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vNForVO0HU\">pic.twitter.com\/vNForVO0HU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District (@LehighAcresFD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LehighAcresFD\/status\/1512100398148079620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Crews arrived at the 1100 block of Venetia St. E around noon Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire was small but was close enough to roadways to prompt the closure of Columbus Blvd. between Pisa and Capri St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The fire is under control. Crews will be on scene for mop up. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u1a88Y7rnj\">pic.twitter.com\/u1a88Y7rnj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District (@LehighAcresFD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LehighAcresFD\/status\/1512101820272984065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>In a series of tweets describing the incident, officials with Lehigh Acres Fire Control &amp; Rescue District said a boy was discovered to have been playing with fireworks in a lot near his house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In addition to being a bad idea&nbsp;due to our dry weather,&#8221; the department said, &#8220;it is also a&nbsp;violation of the current burn ban.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials say a brush fire that sparked in eastern Lehigh Acres was caused by a child playing with fireworks. Columbus Blvd is closed between Pisa and Capri. pic.twitter.com\/vNForVO0HU &mdash; Lehigh&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":52913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52912"}],"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=52912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52914,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52912\/revisions\/52914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}