{"id":240819,"date":"2026-04-21T20:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240819\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:12:08","slug":"fires-burn-over-an-acre-of-wildland-in-western-broward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240819\/","title":{"rendered":"Fires burn over an acre of wildland in western Broward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 21, 2026 at 1:54 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BROWARD COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue helicopter responded to a set of brush fires on Tuesday afternoon in western Broward County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to BSFR Battalion Chief Michael B. Kane, the air rescue unit was involved in water drops over remote hot spots west of Weston. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BSFR requested assistance from the Florida Forest Service, as flames burned under power lines west of Highway 27 and mile marker 45, according to Kane. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The brush fires have burned more than an acre of wildland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is a developing story. Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Caroline Coles\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/86e192d8-0a9f-49de-b4c1-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Caroline Coles<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Caroline Coles  is an experienced journalist who brings energy, heart, and hustle to every story. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 21, 2026 at 1:54 PM BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue helicopter responded to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-240819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240819","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=240819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}