{"id":256131,"date":"2026-05-03T02:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256131\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T02:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:49:10","slug":"fire-crews-battle-brush-fire-in-southwest-miami-dade-burning-around-20-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256131\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews battle brush fire in southwest Miami-Dade burning around 20 acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters are battling a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/brush-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">brush fire <\/a>that ignited Saturday afternoon in southwest Miami-Dade County&#8217;s Redlands area, where heavy smoke filled the air.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-dade-fire-rescue\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami-Dade Fire Rescue <\/a>was alerted to the blaze, which started shortly after 3 p.m. on a private farming property. Currently, the fire is burning about 20 acres.<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade Fire Rescue helicopters are operating above the area, and Miami-Dade sheriff&#8217;s deputies are blocking roads, including Southwest 136th Street off Chrome Avenue, to prevent drivers from entering the smoky conditions.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second brush fire to spark up in the area this week. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/highway-41-fire-latest-info-smoke-miami-dade-broward-everglades-national-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first fire<\/a>, in the Tamiami Trail area, burned more than 9,000 acres.<\/p>\n<p>No additional information has been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are battling a brush fire that ignited Saturday afternoon in southwest Miami-Dade County&#8217;s Redlands area, where heavy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29325,855,1779,123,125,124,17216,9970],"class_list":["post-256131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-brush-fire","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-fire-rescue","tag-southwest-miami-dade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256131","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=256131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}