{"id":318680,"date":"2026-06-24T22:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318680\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T22:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:13:08","slug":"officials-scale-back-crews-fighting-brush-fires-in-west-miami-dade-as-blazes-get-contained-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318680\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials scale back crews fighting brush fires in West Miami-Dade as blazes get contained &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Officials are scaling back their response to multiple brush fires that <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/florida-turnpike-krome-avenue-reopen-as-crews-continue-to-battle-4-brush-fires-in-west-miami-dade\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/florida-turnpike-krome-avenue-reopen-as-crews-continue-to-battle-4-brush-fires-in-west-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">erupted in West Miami-Dade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photos sent by a passenger aboard a flight heading to Miami International Airport shows the fires are nearly completely put out after burning for more than a week. At one point, authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/krome-avenue-shut-down-as-2-brush-fires-caused-by-lightning-strike-rage-in-west-miami-dade\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/krome-avenue-shut-down-as-2-brush-fires-caused-by-lightning-strike-rage-in-west-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">shut down sections of Krome Avenue<\/a> as crews battled the flames.<\/p>\n<p>A smaller number of crews will remain in the area in case those embers flare up again.<\/p>\n<p>The wildfires have burned more than 22,000 acres since they first started.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say each of them are at least 85% contained.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Officials are scaling back their response to multiple brush fires that erupted in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-318680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318680","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=318680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}