{"id":236867,"date":"2026-04-18T12:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236867\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:22:08","slug":"firefighters-battle-brush-fire-near-jacksonville-at-least-a-dozen-homes-evacuated-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236867\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle brush fire near Jacksonville, at least a dozen homes evacuated &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WSVN) \u2014 Firefighters near Jacksonville battled fierce flames as a brush fire swept through the area.<\/p>\n<p>The fire grew to about 400 acres Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities with the Florida Forest Service said that about 25 percent of the fire is under control.<\/p>\n<p>Crews used additional tractor plows and reconnaissance aircraft to help contain the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>At least a dozen homes in the area have voluntarily evacuated. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WSVN) \u2014 Firefighters near Jacksonville battled fierce flames as a brush fire swept through the area.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-236867","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\/236867","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=236867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}