{"id":297898,"date":"2026-06-06T00:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297898\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T00:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:22:06","slug":"martin-county-fire-rescue-extinguishes-nearly-40-acre-brush-fire-in-indiantown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297898\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin County Fire Rescue extinguishes nearly 40-acre brush fire in Indiantown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANTOWN, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.martin.fl.us\/FireRescue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Martin County Fire Rescue<\/a> quickly extinguished an almost 40-acre brush fire Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to MCFR, the fire started just before 3:30 p.m. near Southwest Warfield Boulevard in Indiantown. Firefighters said the fire grew to about 37.8 acres before it was extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/town-of-palm-beach-warns-scammers-posing-town-employees-seeking-financial-information-florida-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Palm Beach warns of door-to-door scammers posing as town employees seeking financial info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MCFR said no one was injured and no structures were threatened. The Florida Forest Service (FFS) also responded and helped battle the flames by creating plow lines in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Martin County Fire Rescue used its drone team to identify hotspots and ensure full containment of the fire before clearing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is unknown, but officials said it may have been sparked by a lightning strike.<\/p>\n<p>FFS will investigate the cause further, MCFR said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANTOWN, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Martin County Fire Rescue quickly extinguished an almost 40-acre brush fire Friday afternoon. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-297898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297898","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=297898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}