{"id":246506,"date":"2026-04-25T19:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246506\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T19:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:23:11","slug":"st-lucie-county-fire-district-deploys-crew-to-assist-with-almost-5000-acre-fire-in-putnam-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246506\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Lucie County Fire District deploys crew to assist with almost 5,000 acre fire in Putnam County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The St. Lucie County Fire District (SLCFD) deployed one brush truck and two personnel as a state resource to assist with ongoing wildfire operations in Putnam County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crew is supporting efforts on the Railroad\/Crews Road Fire, which has burned 4,743 acres across Clay and Putnam counties and is 70% contained as of the morning of April 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">SLCFD said in a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/1CKT8JsWuN\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook post<\/a>, &#8220;When conditions escalate, agencies across the state work together\u2014ensuring resources are in place where they\u2019re needed most&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Florida Forest Service (FFS), overnight crews made good headway on containment line improvements and tackling interior hot spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">FFS says the day shift will focus heavily on mop-up procedures while monitoring fire activity. Patrolling engines will target prevalent hot spots to limit the possibility of the fire restarting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials noted that the mop-up phase is statistically where most incidents occur. Daily safety briefings have been amplified to ensure crews are working safely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Although fire activity has slowed, the mop-up phase requires significant equipment to support the mission. The Florida Forest Service is asking the public to avoid the area, if possible, to give firefighters enough room to work safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Lucie County Fire District (SLCFD) deployed one brush truck and two personnel as a state resource&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-246506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246506","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=246506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}