{"id":1948,"date":"2025-10-14T04:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/1948\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T04:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:48:11","slug":"central-texas-firefighters-battling-200-acre-fire-in-bell-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/1948\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Texas firefighters battling 200-acre fire in Bell County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\">SALADO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211;<\/a> A large wildfire burned more than 200 acres in southeast Bell County, prompting a massive response from fire departments across Central Texas, according to the Bell County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Bell County Communications Center received a 911 call at 2:12 p.m. reporting smoke in the area near 2900 Hackberry Road. Salado Fire Department responded and found the large fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As the fire spread, officials activated the Eastside Strike Force, bringing fire departments from Temple, Belton, Bartlett, Holland, Rogers, Little River-Academy, Troy, Sparta Valley, Morgans Point Resort, Moffat and Jarrell, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When winds changed direction, the Westside Strike Force was also activated, adding fire departments from Killeen, Fort Hood, Nolanville, Harker Heights, Central Bell and Southwest Bell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Texas Forestry Service deployed firefighters, bulldozers and aircraft for retardant drops. Additional wildland fire assets from Travis County and Lake Travis Fire Department also responded to assist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Salado Fire Department maintained command of the scene with assistance from Bell County Emergency Management. Officials said no structures have been affected by the fire and have a handle on containing it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities are asking residents to stay away from the area. \u201cThe firefighters need to worry about fighting fire, not getting hit by people looking at the scene,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said. \u201cIt is also slowing the movement of fire assets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALADO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; A large wildfire burned more than 200 acres in southeast Bell County, prompting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2520,2522,2521,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-1948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-2600-block-of-hackberry","9":"tag-fire-in-salado","10":"tag-salado","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","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=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}