JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department is urging homeowners to take precautionary actions to protect their homes from catching on fire during the dry season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re seeing a lot of accidental and we\u2019re seeing some that are preventable in terms of these fires,\u201d JFRD District Chief of Training Aaron Bebernitz said.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n From January 1 through January 31, JFRD said its firefighters responded to 2,089 fire related calls.<\/p>\n Of those, 38 were brush fires. 29 were wood fires, and four were grass fires. <\/p>\n The number of fires is causing JFRD to repurpose their resources within their department. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cThis heightened response, all of our brush trucks are fully staffed right now,\u201d Bebernitz said. <\/p>\n Bebernitz said homeowners have ways to protect their homes from catching on fire in these dry conditions. <\/p>\n \u201cThe pine needles, the pine cones, leaves, branches accumulate on top of roofs. We want to remind everybody to clean all of that off,\u201d Bebernitz said. <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Bebernitz also stressed the importance of keeping shrubbery maintained<\/p>\n \u201cClean out all the weeds, clean out anything that could heighten or exponentially cause a fire to be worse around your area,\u201d Bebernitz said.<\/p>\n In the event that your home does catch on fire, Bebernitz said do not be a hero and call 911 immediately.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department is urging homeowners to take precautionary actions to protect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[72311,982,9286,72313,72312,18747,4009,72310,72308,969,116,118,117,72307,12814,634,72309,72314,71572,2231],"class_list":["post-149535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-aaron_biebernitz","tag-action_news","tag-ben","tag-bieber","tag-biebernitz","tag-chief","tag-district","tag-district_chief","tag-fire_station_50","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacques_mastifoglio","tag-jfrd","tag-local","tag-madison_fire_rescue","tag-madison_poglio","tag-normandy_boulevard","tag-publix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}