{"id":382590,"date":"2026-07-22T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382590\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:38:12","slug":"firefighters-respond-to-wildfire-in-polk-county-near-dallas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382590\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters respond to wildfire in Polk County near Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PD7L5A3KD5FQ5HP6PML2BFLUXQ-6eZ84w-300x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1227390\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firefighters in Polk County responded to a wildfire near Dallas on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sheriff\u2019s office said around 3 p.m. that Oak Villa Rd has been closed between Kings Valley Hwy and E. Ellendale Ave as crews work to contain the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fire has burned around 50 acres as of 5:30 p.m., with one home evacuated in the area, according to Dallas Fire &amp; EMS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firefighters say the fire is traveling southeast toward a dry area of agriculture and a Christmas tree farm. As of 8 p.m., Dallas Fire says the wildfire is around 50% contained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>KPTV FOX 12 Portland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters in Polk County responded to a wildfire near Dallas on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Polk County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1015],"class_list":["post-382590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-oregon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382590","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=382590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}