{"id":424459,"date":"2026-09-02T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424459\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:54:08","slug":"grass-fires-burn-along-highways-in-dallas-and-denton-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424459\/","title":{"rendered":"Grass fires burn along highways in Dallas and Denton counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/early-pm-news-clean-wednesday-2026_09_02-kdfweme00_00.09.59.36.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas &#8211; Several grass fires were reported on Wednesday afternoon along highways in Dallas and Denton counties.<\/p>\n<p>   Hwy. 114 Grass Fire   <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A grass fire scorched a large field along Highway 114 near Justin in Denton County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Justin Fire Department said the fire started around 3:30 p.m. as the result of an accident involving a cement mixer. Part of the truck rolled onto the road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The fire burned about five acres before it was contained.<\/p>\n<p> Hwy. 161 Grass Fire  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Moments after leaving that fire, SKY 4 flew over another grass fire in Grand Prairie in Dallas County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Black smoke was seen rising from the area off Highway 161 just north of Interstate 30.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The fire mostly burned through dense trees and brush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from public officials and the SKY 4 helicopter.<\/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\/denton-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denton County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/grand-prairie\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Prairie<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas &#8211; Several grass fires were reported on Wednesday afternoon along highways in Dallas and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,1643,1279,223,216,393,5607],"class_list":["post-424459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-denton-county","tag-grand-prairie","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424459","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=424459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}