{"id":238771,"date":"2026-05-21T00:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238771\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:25:13","slug":"update-wildfire-burning-in-queens-county-now-being-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238771\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Wildfire burning in Queens County now being held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wildfire is burning in the community of East Port L\u2019Hebert, Queens County is now being held, according to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).<\/p>\n<p>The post on social media from DNR was made just before 9 p.m., Wednesday, about one hour after it was still labelled as out of control.<\/p>\n<p>As of 8 p.m., it was three hectares in size.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day the province had deployed its four new fixed wing air tankers and bird dog to battle the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze came on the heels of a heat warning for that area of the province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildfire is burning in the community of East Port L\u2019Hebert, Queens County is now being held, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-238771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}