{"id":369505,"date":"2026-07-11T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369505\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:30:17","slug":"17-acre-grass-fire-near-itasca-in-hill-county-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369505\/","title":{"rendered":"17-acre grass fire near Itasca in Hill County, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\">HILL COUNTY, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; <\/a> A large grass fire near Itasca, Texas burned about 17 acres Tuesday afternoon in Hill County, prompting a multi-agency response, according to the Hill County Emergency Management District.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Crews contained a 17-acre grass fire near Itasca on HCR 4434, according to the Hill County...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PV32SUKAHNCLBHXDV7EJTCDH3Q.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" \/>Crews contained a 17-acre grass fire near Itasca on HCR 4434, according to the Hill County Emergency Management District.(Hill County Emergency Management District)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said crews were dispatched at approximately 1:05 p.m. to the 300 block of HCR 4434 in Itasca. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Responding agencies included the Itasca Fire Department, Covington Fire Rescue, Hillsboro Fire\/Rescue, Grandview Fire, and Hill EMS.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Crews contained a 17-acre grass fire near Itasca on HCR 4434, according to the Hill County...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7QDDG2L75JFCTLFCHF7ZKWSJKM.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" \/>Crews contained a 17-acre grass fire near Itasca on HCR 4434, according to the Hill County Emergency Management District.(Hill County Emergency Management District)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Firefighters quickly stopped the forward progression of the fire after arriving on scene, officials said. Because of gusty winds, crews were still on scene as of 3:30 p.m. mopping up hot spots to prevent flare-ups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials estimated the fire burned approximately 17 acres.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Utility 115 is a\u00a0UTV (side-by-side)\u00a0with firefighting capabilities, and officials said it...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5I7FM2G3CJHVFP6ENTAKQE6NOI.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" \/>Utility 115 is a\u00a0UTV (side-by-side)\u00a0with firefighting capabilities, and officials said it helped crews reach areas\u00a0regular brush trucks could not access.(Photo: Hill County Emergency Management District)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Hill County Emergency Management District also noted the response marked Covington Fire Rescue Utility 115\u2019s first call for service. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Utility 115 is a UTV (side-by-side) with firefighting capabilities, and officials said it helped crews reach areas regular brush trucks could not access.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Utility 115 is a\u00a0UTV (side-by-side)\u00a0with firefighting capabilities, and officials said it...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/U6EZVP7W5ZDRRGOLV6ENJJ5FAM.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" \/>Utility 115 is a\u00a0UTV (side-by-side)\u00a0with firefighting capabilities, and officials said it helped crews reach areas\u00a0regular brush trucks could not access.(Photo: Hill County Emergency Management District)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILL COUNTY, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; A large grass fire near Itasca, Texas burned about 17 acres Tuesday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130911,130913,130912,130917,130909,130910,130908,130914,130915,130907,27,29,28,130916,130918],"class_list":["post-369505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-covington-fire-rescue","tag-grass-fire-in-hill-county","tag-grass-fire-in-itasca","tag-grass-fire-season-in-texas","tag-hcr-4434-itasca","tag-hill-county-emergency-management-district","tag-hill-county-grass-fire","tag-hillsboro-fire-rescue","tag-itasca-fire-department","tag-itasca-texas-grass-fire","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-wildfire-grassfire","tag-wildfire-season-in-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369505","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=369505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}