{"id":238474,"date":"2026-04-20T03:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238474\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:51:09","slug":"orange-haze-blankets-alachua-county-as-several-fires-rage-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238474\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Haze Blankets Alachua County as Several Fires Rage in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A smoky haze blanketed Alachua County, Florida, on Sunday, April 19, as several fires raged in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Alachua Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AlachuaPolice\/posts\/pfbid02eLdAxEkBrMf3N3ZwMNP7LnNs7J9j7vBx833CKmfGY1KTHEkvpdCaeYvkxeQLPYEal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shared;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;shared&quot;}\" class=\"link \">shared<\/a> this footage and said it was assisting the Gainesville Police Department with evacuations and traffic control due to a brush fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A High Springs Fire Department official named Kevin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/2017031355906927\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said&quot;}\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> in an a video post at 7 pm that there was a \u201cthick layer of smoke all over the place\u201d due to several fires in the area. Credit: Alachua Police Department via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A smoky haze blanketed Alachua County, Florida, on Sunday, April 19, as several fires raged in the area.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12513,105771,28,30,29,105770],"class_list":["post-238474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alachua-county","tag-alachua-police-department","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gainesville-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238474","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=238474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}