{"id":176645,"date":"2026-02-23T16:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/176645\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:35:16","slug":"houston-fire-department-contains-30-of-175-acre-greens-bayou-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/176645\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Fire Department contains 30% of 175-acre Greens Bayou fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Houston Fire Department is fighting a fire near Greens Bayou that has already burned more than 100 acres, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials have estimated\u00a0the fire at 175 acres with 30% containment, per social media posts from the department. They started fighting the fire Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">District Chief Robert\u00a0Ausmus said that a forward progression of the fire has been stopped. The wind pattern is expected to change Monday but Ausmus said they are preparing for it.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We feel fairly confident right now we&#8217;re going to be able to hold it during this wind event,&#8221; Ausmus said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/houston-greens-bayou-fire-21838404.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Fire Department contains 30% of 175-acre Greens Bayou fire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Houston Fire Department contains 30% of 175-acre Greens Bayou fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Fire Department is fighting a fire near Greens Bayou that has already burned more than 100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[71094,70929,56,3747,7189,58,57],"class_list":["post-176645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-district-chief-robert-ausmus","tag-greens-bayou","tag-houston","tag-houston-chronicle","tag-houston-fire-department","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176645","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=176645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}