{"id":180422,"date":"2026-03-06T07:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180422\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:18:13","slug":"burn-bans-extended-in-several-north-central-florida-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180422\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn bans extended in several North Central Florida counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Several North Central Florida counties are extending their burn bans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Leaders in Columbia, Gilchrist and Levy counties decided to keep their bans in place longer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Levy and Gilchrist\u2019s bans are now set to run through at least Thursday of next week, and Columbia County\u2019s ban was extended through March 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">TRENDING: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/03\/05\/family-woman-killed-dixie-county-hit-and-run-demands-answers-community-calls-further-investigation\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dixie County hit-and-run victim\u2019s family demands answers as community calls for further investigation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Putnam County leaders lifted their ban this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Alachua County\u2019s ban is scheduled to end on Friday unless it is extended.<\/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":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Several North Central Florida counties are extending their burn bans. Leaders in Columbia, Gilchrist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71961,44900,28,30,29,45351,73869,45350,4735],"class_list":{"0":"post-180422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-burn-bans","9":"tag-columbia","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-gilchrist","14":"tag-leaders","15":"tag-levy","16":"tag-ncfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180422","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=180422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}