{"id":415056,"date":"2026-08-24T03:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415056\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T03:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:29:24","slug":"two-injured-after-fire-at-austin-country-flea-market-sparks-multi-acre-brush-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415056\/","title":{"rendered":"Two injured after fire at Austin Country Flea Market sparks multi-acre brush fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\">AUSTIN, Texas (KWTX) &#8211;<\/a> Two people were injured as fire crews battled a brush fire sparked by another fire at the Austin Country Flea Market Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The fire erupted shortly after 6 p.m. in the 9500 block of US 290. The Austin Country Flea Market is one of the oldest and biggest weekend flea markets in Central Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Austin Fire Department, one large structure was engulfed in flames. That fire then ignited a \u201cmulti-acre brush fire that contained a tire pile that created the large column of black smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The brush fire was contained Sunday night. \u201cAll forward fire progress on main body has been stopped,\u201d the fire department said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Two people suffered \u201cminor injuries,\u201d but the fire department did not clarify whether they were firefighters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The cause of the fire at the flea market remains under investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; Two people were injured as fire crews battled a brush fire sparked by another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[144622,132,144620,8067,134,133,144621,27],"class_list":["post-415056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-9500-block-of-us-290","tag-austin","tag-austin-country-flea-market","tag-austin-fire-department","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-fire-at-austin-country-flea-market","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415056","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=415056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}