{"id":282736,"date":"2026-05-24T12:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282736\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T12:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:09:16","slug":"thunderstorms-spark-wildfires-in-north-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282736\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorms spark wildfires in North Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PALATKA, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Wildfires started in Palatka and Levy County after thunderstorms began around Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The largest is the South Gas Line 2 fire, which is 20 acres wide. It is 30% contained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">U.S. Forest Service officials also say that four wildfires started in the Ocala National Forest, and were put out by Lake County firefighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALATKA, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Wildfires started in Palatka and Levy County after thunderstorms began around Saturday afternoon. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,120261,120260,120262,120263,120259],"class_list":["post-282736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-levy-county-wildfire","tag-palatka-fire","tag-south-gas-line-2-fire","tag-thunderstorm-wildfires","tag-wildfires-north-central-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282736","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=282736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}