{"id":217698,"date":"2026-03-24T06:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/217698\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:12:22","slug":"46-acre-wildfire-in-bastrop-state-park-now-75-contained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/217698\/","title":{"rendered":"46-acre wildfire in Bastrop State Park now 75% contained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wildfire that spread 46 acres through Bastrop State Park and prompted evacuations is 75% contained as of 2:38 p.m. Monday, according to the Texas A&amp;M Forest Service. <\/p>\n<p>The fire began Sunday night and continued through the early hours of Monday morning. Officials put an evacuation order in place for The Pines, an RV camping park. <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Fire, smoke and emergency vehicles can be seen in the distance past a road in a rural area. \"  width=\"880\" height=\"660\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774332742_551_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Texas A&amp;M Forest Service<\/p>\n<p>Officials respond to a wildfire at Bastrop State Park.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said no injuries or casualties related to the fire were reported, and the fire did not cause any structural loss at the park. <\/p>\n<p>Officials said bulldozers were active all night patrolling the edge of the fire, which remains confined to Bastrop State Park. A TPWD helicopter is dropping water on the most active areas of the fire, the department said. <\/p>\n<p>TPWD officials said first responders will continue suppressing the fire as slightly gusty winds and low humidity are expected to return this afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>One eastbound lane of State Highway 21 between Loop 150 and Norfolk Drive has been reopened, as well as Bastrop State Park&#8217;s Park Road 1B. <\/p>\n<p>Park Road 1A remains closed. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildfire that spread 46 acres through Bastrop State Park and prompted evacuations is 75% contained as of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,34664,84911,84912,1955,84913],"class_list":["post-217698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-bastrop-state-park","tag-bastrop-wildfire","tag-is-highway-21-closed-in-bastrop","tag-wildfire","tag-wildfire-evacuations-bastrop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217698","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=217698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}