{"id":320706,"date":"2026-05-18T03:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320706\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T03:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:03:15","slug":"field-fire-burns-3-acres-near-watt-avenue-in-north-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320706\/","title":{"rendered":"Field fire burns 3 acres near Watt Avenue in North Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH HIGHLANDS, Calif. \u2014 Firefighters responded to a field fire around 9:33 a.m. near Q Street and Watt Avenue, according to the Sacramento\u00a0Metropolitan Fire District.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the fire burned about three acres. Metro Fire said crews arrived and surrounded the fire with hose lines to contain the blaze and protect nearby structures. Additional engines were requested to assist at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Metro Fire said firefighters later knocked down the fire and worked to fully extinguish hot spots.<\/p>\n<p>With red flag conditions increasing the fire threat, Metro Fire said crews are taking \u201cextra precautions to ensure additional resources are ordered early and any threats are mitigated quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH HIGHLANDS, Calif. \u2014 Firefighters responded to a field fire around 9:33 a.m. near Q Street and Watt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-320706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}