{"id":267249,"date":"2026-05-11T22:43:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267249\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:43:28","slug":"dense-vegetation-fuels-early-morning-brush-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267249\/","title":{"rendered":"Dense vegetation fuels early morning brush fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Martin County Fire Rescue crews battled a slow-moving brush fire at around 4 a.m. Monday in the area of Southeast Federal Highway and Southeast Osprey Street.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH RELATED: Brush fire breaks out near Alton Town Center<\/p>\n<p>Brushfire breaks out near Alton Town Center in Palm Beach Gardens<\/p>\n<p>The fire burned about a quarter of an acre, authorities said. Dense vegetation fueled the fire, causing it to burn longer and hotter, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Crews extinguished the flames and said drivers along Southeast Federal Highway may see light smoke in the area Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt, and no structures or power lines were in danger, crews said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire occurred just hours after a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/region-n-palm-beach-county\/palm-beach-gardens\/brushfire-breaks-out-near-alton-town-center-shopping-center-in-palm-beach-gardens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brush fire broke out<\/a> near a wooded area just feet from homes and the Alton Town Center shopping center on Donald Ross Road in Palm Beach Gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Martin County Fire Rescue crews battled a slow-moving brush fire at around 4 a.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28,1160,171,173,172,179,12758],"class_list":["post-267249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-florida","tag-martin-county","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-treasure-coast","tag-wptv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267249","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=267249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}