{"id":298816,"date":"2026-05-18T22:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/298816\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:46:07","slug":"wildfire-burning-near-kress-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/298816\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire burning near Kress, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; We are gathering information on a wildfire burning near the community of Kress, in Swisher County, about 50 miles north of Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Texas A&amp;M Forest Service <a href=\"https:\/\/tfswildfires.com\/public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/tfswildfires.com\/public\/\">website<\/a> shows an active wildfire just west of I-27, but does not have specifics on its size.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The City of Kress posted on Facebook: There are fires very close to Kress. Please evacuate immediately. Be safe while doing it please. If anybody needs transportation, there are buses running from the school to\ufffc Claytonville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city also posted: Please stay off the roads in Kress if possible. Lots of emergency vehicles are traveling the roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Several crews are dispatching from across the South Plains to the area, to fight the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As we gather additional information, we will share it here. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A fire weather warning continues into the evening for the region, because of the very high wildfire risk. The gusty wind will shift out of the N\/NE early Tuesday morning, as a front sweeps across the area. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; We are gathering information on a wildfire burning near the community of Kress, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[108698,168,170,169,108697],"class_list":["post-298816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-kress","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-wildifre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298816","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=298816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}