{"id":238377,"date":"2026-04-20T01:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:37:14","slug":"evacuation-orders-lifted-roads-closed-due-to-growing-75-acre-wildfire-in-gainesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238377\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuation orders lifted, roads closed due to growing 75-acre wildfire in Gainesville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Evacuation orders have been lifted for several homes in northeast Gainesville, as first responders work to contain an active 75-acre wildfire. Firefighters say those who evacuated can return home at 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Eryn\u2019s Garden and Pine Forest communities, as well as homes near 4700 Main St., were evacuated due to the wildfire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Florida Forest Service officials say the fire started around 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon, and is burning in the woods near Gainesville Regional Utilities\u2019 eastside operations center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Firefighters currently can\u2019t say how many homes are threatened, or how the blaze started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said Main Street is closed between 39th and 53rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crews are urging drivers in the area to use extra caution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is a developing story, and we will update it as we learn more information.<\/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>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Evacuation orders have been lifted for several homes in northeast Gainesville, as first responders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-238377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238377","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=238377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}