{"id":160836,"date":"2026-02-19T05:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160836\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T05:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:11:13","slug":"north-central-florida-burn-bans-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160836\/","title":{"rendered":"North Central Florida burn bans extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LEVY COUNTY, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Levy County officials are the latest leaders in North Central Florida to extend their burn ban, which will run through Feb. 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Marion and Putnam County officials extended their bans on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Eight total counties in TV20\u2019s area have burn bans in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Bill\u2019s Branch Fire is burning on Wednesday night on State Road 19 near the Ocala National Forest, prompting officials to remind drivers about hazardous driving conditions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEVY COUNTY, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Levy County officials are the latest leaders in North Central Florida to extend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[77013,34873,855,28,30,29,36127,3833,34927,69605],"class_list":{"0":"post-160836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-bills-branch-fire","9":"tag-burn-ban","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-levy-county","15":"tag-marion-county","16":"tag-putnam-county","17":"tag-wildfire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160836","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=160836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}