{"id":243123,"date":"2026-04-23T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243123\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:42:08","slug":"witnesses-describe-wild-scene-of-brush-fire-near-savannas-preserve-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243123\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses describe wild scene of brush fire near Savannas Preserve State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 Witnesses say a brush fire broke out overnight near Savannas Preserve State Park along Jensen Beach Boulevard, with reports of a man allegedly using a torch to start the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Video circulating online Thursday morning appears to show a large stretch of roadside brush burning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fire pics 2.jpg\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12f84fc8-6532-4e8a-b1a5-8fee91948c98-firepics2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One witness described the situation as a \u201cwild thing to experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not yet released official details. CBS12 was on scene Thursday morning. The scene was completely clear, and there was a significant amount of grass charred along Jensen Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Witnesses describe wild scene of brush fire near Savannas Preserve State Park. (WPEC){p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/05535112-2b9f-4590-96b0-61062d4bfed3-fierpics4.jpg\"\/>Witnesses describe wild scene of brush fire near Savannas Preserve State Park. (WPEC)<\/p>\n<p>CBS12 has reached out to Port St. Lucie police and the St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office for more information and is still waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Witnesses say a brush fire broke out overnight near Savannas Preserve State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-243123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243123","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=243123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}