{"id":415451,"date":"2026-10-01T06:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415451\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T06:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:02:24","slug":"marsh-wildfire-grows-to-250-acres-near-groveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415451\/","title":{"rendered":"Marsh wildfire grows to 250 acres near Groveland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/wofl-silver-eagle-road-marsh-fire-near-groveland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">The Silver Eagle Road Marsh Fire near Groveland in Lake County, Sept. 30, 2026. {Credit: Florida Forest Service] <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">GROVELAND, Fla. &#8211; The Florida Forest Service&#8217;s Withlacoochee Forestry Center is monitoring the Silver Eagle Road Marsh Fire near Groveland in Lake County, which has grown to approximately 250 acres.<\/p>\n<p>   Helicopters support firefighting efforts <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials said one helicopter is making water drops on the fire, with a second helicopter en route. Because the fire is burning in marshland, firefighters cannot safely access much of the area on foot, making aerial support critical to suppression efforts.<\/p>\n<p>   Public urged to avoid the area <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities are asking the public to stay away from the area to allow firefighters to work safely.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;For the safety of both responders and the public, please avoid the area and allow personnel the space necessary to conduct their operations effectively,&#8221; the Florida Forest Service said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written based on information shared by the Florida Forest Service and Lake County Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/lake-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lake County News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article The Silver Eagle Road Marsh Fire near Groveland in Lake County, Sept. 30, 2026. {Credit: Florida Forest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[630,47,2174,115,139,141,140,628],"class_list":["post-415451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-lake-county","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415451","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=415451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}