{"id":6526,"date":"2012-04-07T17:19:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T22:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2012-04-15T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T16:46:44","slug":"suspicious-brush-fires-haunt-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/04\/suspicious-brush-fires-haunt-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious Brush Fires <BR> Haunt Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6527\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/LAFD1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6527\" title=\"LAFD\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/LAFD1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Lehigh Acres Fire officials , the LAFD has had three suspicious brush fire again today.<\/p>\n<p>As of April 4, 44 percent of the county\u2019s 32 reported brush fires were said intentionally set \u2013 up from 19 percent during that time period last year, and up 21 percent from 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating because these are fires that don\u2019t need to happen,\u201d said Victor Hill, wildfire mitigation specialist with the Caloosahatchee Forestry Center.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s much easier to prevent a fire than to control it once it starts \u2013 but firefighters and the forestry center can do that only if neighbors keep an eye on one another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you see a suspicious vehicle in your neighborhood that\u2019s parked by the side of the road, and someone\u2019s kind of loitering around it, keep an eye on what they\u2019re doing,\u201d Hill said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Lehigh Acres Fire officials , the LAFD has had three suspicious brush fire again today. As of April 4, 44 percent of the county\u2019s 32 reported brush fires&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526"}],"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=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}