{"id":10657,"date":"2025-10-19T06:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/10657\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T06:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:41:06","slug":"fire-crews-continue-containment-efforts-on-potter-and-wheeler-county-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/10657\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews continue containment efforts on Potter and Wheeler County fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; Multiple agencies and the Texas A&amp;M Forest Service are working to contain two fires burning in Potter and Wheeler counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Texas A&amp;M Forest Service (TFS) the \u201cC2\u2033 fire in Potter County has burned about 100 acres and is 90% contained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say three aircraft from Dumas and a private helicopter assisted with the C2 fire by dropping fire retardant to slow the flames and protect nearby land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In Wheeler County, crews are battling the \u201cBronco Creek\u201d fire, which has burned about 195 acres and is 75% contained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say forward progression of both fires has stopped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Multiple agencies are assisting in both responses as windy conditions continue across the Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">We will continue to provide updates as more information becomes available. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KFDA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; Multiple agencies and the Texas A&amp;M Forest Service are working to contain two fires&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2546,9468,9467,120,3002,9466,27,1887,29,28,9465,9469],"class_list":["post-10657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-acres","tag-bronco-creek","tag-c2","tag-firefighters","tag-fires","tag-potter","tag-texas","tag-texas-am-forest-service","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-wheeler","tag-wheeler-county-volunteer-fire-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}