{"id":417642,"date":"2026-08-26T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417642\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:16:10","slug":"lufkin-fd-deploys-5-firefighters-to-help-battle-north-central-texas-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417642\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufkin FD deploys 5 firefighters to help battle north-central Texas fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUFKIN, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; The Lufkin Fire Department deployed five firefighters to north-central Texas Tuesday to assist in firefighting efforts in Palo Pinto and Jack counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Texas Emergency Medical Task Force requested the aid for the growing Ross and Rio Escondido fires, which have burned more than 800,000 acres combined, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A battalion chief and firefighter left as part of the wildland paramedic unit, and a captain and driver-operator responded in an ambulance, with an assistant fire chief acting as ambulance strike team leader, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The wildland paramedic unit provides medical assistance to firefighters battling the fires, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Overall, eight firefighters have deployed to assist in firefighting operations on state assignment, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State programs will reimburse the department for its assistance, Assistant Fire Chief Ryan Watson said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSharing of resources and manpower is important to the safety of our state and our own community,\u201d Watson said in a statement. \u201cWe are proud to serve and care for fellow firefighters and residents in the communities being impacted by wildfire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUFKIN, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; The Lufkin Fire Department deployed five firefighters to north-central Texas Tuesday to assist in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,125,120,38542,18616,145536,12298,108821,145535,145001,27,29,28,1955],"class_list":["post-417642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-fire","tag-fire-department","tag-firefighters","tag-grass","tag-grass-fire","tag-grassfire","tag-lufkin","tag-lufkin-fire-department","tag-rio-escondido","tag-ross-fire","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-wildfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417642","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=417642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}