{"id":247117,"date":"2026-04-26T07:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247117\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T07:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:57:25","slug":"hundreds-of-wildfires-burn-across-florida-and-georgia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247117\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of wildfires burn across Florida and Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Georgia and Florida are battling numerous wildfires that have destroyed homes and forced evacuations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Wednesday, firefighters in Georgia had responded to 34 new blazes that had burned 75 acres statewide, according to the state&#8217;s Forestry Commission. The Pineland Road Fire in Clinch County has grown to nearly 30,000 acres and is only 10% contained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Florida, firefighters say the state is experiencing one of its worst fire seasons in decades, with more than 130 active wildfires. Officials in both states cite dry conditions, high winds, and a lack of rain as key factors making the fires difficult to control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georgia and Florida are battling numerous wildfires that have destroyed homes and forced evacuations. On Wednesday, firefighters in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-247117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247117","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=247117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}