{"id":162955,"date":"2026-02-20T20:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162955\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:05:16","slug":"10-acre-wildfire-burning-in-green-cove-springs-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162955\/","title":{"rendered":"10-acre wildfire burning in Green Cove Springs, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials urge residents to use caution in the area of Ravenwood Drive as first responders &#8220;mop-up&#8221; the wildfire.<\/p>\n<p>GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. \u2014 Crews are currently on scene in Green Cove Springs fighting a reported wildfire, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Forest Service- Jacksonville Forestry Center announced Thursday afternoon that crews were dispatched to a wildfire in the area of Ravenwood Drive along County Road 209.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1C67gUfzqD\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">later update<\/a>, the Florida Forest Service listed the fire as spanning 10 acres and being 50% contained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jacksonville Forestry Center has stopped all forward progression of the Ravenwood Fire and is currently improving containment lines,&#8221; FFS said just after 5 p.m. &#8220;Crews will continue to improve containment lines and will begin to perform mop-up procedures. If you are in the area, please exercise caution as crews are still actively engaged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials urge residents to use caution in the area of Ravenwood Drive as first responders &#8220;mop-up&#8221; the wildfire.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-162955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162955","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=162955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}