{"id":168358,"date":"2026-02-17T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/168358\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:24:07","slug":"smith-county-firefighters-sent-to-west-texas-for-potential-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/168358\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith County firefighters sent to West Texas for potential wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Four Smith County firefighters will be sent to West Texas to provide assistance in case of potential wildfires, the Smith County Emergency Services District 2 (EDS 2) announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The government office received a request from the State of Texas to send four of its Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System (TIFMAS) members to Pampa and Borger, Texas, to be ready to assist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The four firefighters include one engine boss and one dozer boss, Smith County EDS 2 said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Maintained by the Texas A&amp;M Forest Service, TIFMAS team members provide mutual aid across Texas during large-scale emergencies, such as wildfires, floods or other disasters, by mobilizing local fire resources statewide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other agencies readying alongside include Tyler Fire Department, Nacogdoches Fire Department, Texarkana Fire Department and Longview Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Four Smith County firefighters will be sent to West Texas to provide assistance in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2604,68287,120,18153,27,29,28,67955,375,5607],"class_list":{"0":"post-168358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-east-texas","9":"tag-eds-2","10":"tag-firefighters","11":"tag-smith-county","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news","15":"tag-tifmas","16":"tag-west-texas","17":"tag-wildfires"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168358","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=168358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}