{"id":417534,"date":"2026-08-26T19:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417534\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T19:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:48:13","slug":"ross-fire-houston-area-crews-aid-palo-pinto-jack-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417534\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Fire: Houston-area crews aid Palo Pinto, Jack counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/ross-fire-palo-pinto-jack-county-22402635.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Ross Fire <\/a>continues burning in North Texas, Houston-area firefighters and personnel have been deployed to help.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management sent members of its Incident Management Team to assist with the Ross Fire containment efforts, the agency said Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Willowfork Fire Department in Katy and the Atascocita Fire Department sent firefighters to Palo Pinto and Jack Counties to help battle the blaze, according to Tuesday night Facebook posts.<\/p>\n<p>Willowfork sent firefighters along with a tanker, while Atascocita sent seven firefighters and an ambulance bus. The Atascocita Fire Department said they would be helping with evacuations, firefighter rehab and patient care.<\/p>\n<p>Early Wednesday morning, the Sheldon Community Fire &amp; Rescue deployed four firefighters to help with the Ross Fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Ross Fire continues burning in North Texas, Houston-area firefighters and personnel have been deployed to help.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-417534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417534","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=417534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}