{"id":338065,"date":"2026-07-13T01:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338065\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T01:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:45:08","slug":"martin-county-brush-fires-contained-but-florida-forest-service-says-more-expected-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338065\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin County brush fires contained, but Florida Forest Service says more expected this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Martin County saw 2 brush fires this week, including one sparked by a lightning strike. Both are now fully contained and being monitored by the Florida Forest Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Florida Forest Service says the conditions that fuel these fires are not going away anytime soon, but residents should not be alarmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATCH WPTV&#8217;S COVERAGE BELOW:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">David Grubitch, a mitigation specialist and spokesperson with the department, said this is their peak season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;We&#8217;re in that summertime where you don&#8217;t even want to be outside; it&#8217;s hot, so that same heat is drying out these fine dead fuels and what happens is the fuels are receptive and they&#8217;re ready, so when you get a lightning strike, it&#8217;s going to go out there, it&#8217;s going to start a fire,&#8221; said Grubitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Grubitch explained that rain often extinguishes these fires immediately, but sometimes they travel underground and surface days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He said the public plays a crucial role in helping the Florida Forest Service do its job. Grubitch stressed that residents should never assume someone else has already called in a brush fire. If you see something, say something, as he said, it can make all the difference in how quickly crews are able to get a fire under control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin County saw 2 brush fires this week, including one sparked by a lightning strike. Both are now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-338065","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\/338065","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=338065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}