{"id":283085,"date":"2026-05-24T22:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283085\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T22:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:19:19","slug":"multiple-brush-fires-reported-after-storms-move-through-charlotte-county-1-active-now-charlotte-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283085\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple brush fires reported after storms move through Charlotte County; 1 active now | Charlotte County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"164\">CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Charlotte County officials are responding to multiple brush fires believed to have been sparked by lightning strikes Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"166\" data-end=\"324\">Charlotte County Fire &amp; EMS confirmed to WINK News that crews were working two, possibly three separate brush fires following strong thunderstorms in the area. As of 6 p.m., there is only one brush fire near mile marker 152.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"326\" data-end=\"469\">Crews were dispatched around 5 p.m., according to officials, and additional information is expected as firefighters continue working the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Video sent in by Sam Poulin.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"531\" data-end=\"597\">At this time, no road closures or evacuations have been announced.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"599\" data-end=\"703\">WINK News reporter Hunter Walterman is headed to the scene and working to gather the latest information.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"705\" data-end=\"790\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/WINKNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Charlotte County officials are responding to multiple brush fires believed to have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,853],"class_list":["post-283085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-charlotte-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283085","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=283085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}