{"id":421169,"date":"2026-08-30T17:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421169\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:46:37","slug":"large-fire-erupts-in-sand-branch-area-of-dallas-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421169\/","title":{"rendered":"Large fire erupts in Sand Branch area of Dallas County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/i1fqudnwhcosh1v6.jpg\" alt=\"Large fire reported in Sand Branch\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/i1fqudnwhcosh1v6.jpg\" alt=\"Large fire reported in Sand Branch\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-39f6236e=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; A large fire erupted in the Sand Branch area of Dallas County overnight.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the Dallas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, the fire happened in the 200 block of Burns Drive about 10 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials said residents in the area had to be evacuated.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Multiple fire departments were at the scene to fight the fire.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">People are being asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sand-branch-fire.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke from a fire in the Sand Branch area of Dallas County is seen on Aug. 29, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Smoke from a fire in the Sand Branch area of Dallas County is seen on Aug. 29, 2026.  (Facebook\/Dallas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office \/ FOX Local)<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It\u2019s not clear what caused the blaze or if anyone was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story came from a social media post by the Dallas County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/wildfires\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wildfires<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; A large fire erupted in the Sand Branch area of Dallas County overnight. What we know:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,223,216,393,5607],"class_list":["post-421169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421169","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=421169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}