{"id":257856,"date":"2026-05-04T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257856\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:54:11","slug":"escaped-burn-pile-grows-to-6-acre-brush-fire-near-floridas-turnpike-in-lake-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257856\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Escaped burn pile’ grows to 6-acre brush fire near Florida’s Turnpike in Lake County"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Escaped burn pile’ grows to 6-acre brush fire near Florida’s Turnpike in Lake County<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 11:48 AM EDT May 4, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLake County officials said an “escaped burn pile” has grown to a 6-acre fire near Florida’s Turnpike on Monday morning. The Florida Forest Service is en route and the City of Groveland battalion chief is on scene, officials said. >> This is a breaking news story and will be updated as more information is released\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Lake County officials said an “escaped burn pile” has grown to a 6-acre fire near Florida’s Turnpike on Monday morning. <\/p>\n

The Florida Forest Service is en route and the City of Groveland battalion chief is on scene, officials said. <\/p>\n

>> This is a breaking news story and will be updated as more information is released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Escaped burn pile’ grows to 6-acre brush fire near Florida’s Turnpike in Lake County Updated: 11:48 AM EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111855,187,855,28,35099,30,29,111854,2174,674,4546,15470,2772,111853,27602,725,5069],"class_list":["post-257856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-111855","tag-city","tag-fire","tag-florida","tag-florida-forest-service","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-groveland-battalion-chief","tag-lake-county","tag-monday-morning","tag-more-information","tag-news-story","tag-official","tag-pile","tag-route","tag-scene","tag-turnpike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257856","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=257856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}