{"id":501543,"date":"2026-10-19T23:44:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T23:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501543\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T23:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T23:44:24","slug":"brass-fire-near-hot-springs-grows-to-1000-acres-50-contained-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501543\/","title":{"rendered":"Brass Fire near Hot Springs grows to 1,000 acres, 50% contained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOT SPRINGS, Mont. \u2014 Fire crews have reached 50% containment on the Brass Fire burning on the South Ridge along Little Bitterroot Road southeast of Hot Springs, but officials say the blaze has grown significantly.<\/p>\n<p>The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Division of Fire reported three engines were on the scene. The fire has expanded from 500 acres to more than 1,000 acres.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said there were no road closures. They reported the fire started from a debris pile burn that got away in high wind conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said a burnout to remove combustible vegetation is possible, but crews have not decided if or when that will happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOT SPRINGS, Mont. \u2014 Fire crews have reached 50% containment on the Brass Fire burning on the South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-501543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501543","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=501543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}