{"id":165752,"date":"2026-02-23T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165752\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:12:06","slug":"crews-battle-brushfire-in-orlando-near-metrowest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165752\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews battle brushfire in Orlando near MetroWest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCrews are working to extinguish a brush fire near Arnold Palmer Drive and Kirkman Road on Monday morning, the Orlando Fire Department said. &#8220;The fire was about 100&#215;300 upon arrival,&#8221; OFD said, and had been burning for several hours. The fire was reported around 6 a.m., and is now 80% contained, officials said in an 11 a.m. news conference. OFD said with the dry conditions,  it doesn&#8217;t take much to get a fire  going.No structures are n danger and no evacuations have been isssued. Officials are working to figure out the cause.  &gt;&gt; This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is released.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Crews are working to extinguish a fire near Arnold Palmer Drive and Kirkman Road on Monday morning, the Orlando Fire Department said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fire was about 100&#215;300 upon arrival,&#8221; OFD said, and had been burning for several hours. <\/p>\n<p>WESH 2 has a crew on the way to the scene. <\/p>\n<p>No other details have been released. <\/p>\n<p>OFD plans to share an update at 11 a.m. WESH 2 will stream the news conference in the player above. <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is released.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews are working to extinguish a brush fire near Arnold Palmer Drive and Kirkman Road on Monday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[73861,78920,3582,855,15469,674,4546,23244,139,4020,141,140,78921,725,45793,4825,918],"class_list":["post-165752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-a-m-wesh","tag-arnold-palmer-drive","tag-crew","tag-fire","tag-kirkman-road","tag-monday-morning","tag-more-information","tag-ofd","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-fire-department","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-other-detail","tag-scene","tag-several-hour","tag-way","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165752","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=165752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}