{"id":429499,"date":"2026-09-08T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429499\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:10:08","slug":"possible-arsonist-sought-after-2-acres-burn-in-castle-hills-brush-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429499\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible arsonist sought after 2 acres burn in Castle Hills brush fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CASTLE HILLS, Texas \u2014 Castle Hills firefighters are investigating whether two overnight brush fires were intentionally set.<\/p>\n<p>The fires were reported within an hour of each other after 11 p.m. on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The first broke out in a brushy area behind Antonian High School near West Avenue and Jackson Keller, while the second was reported behind CW Flooring off Northwest Loop 410 and Jackson Keller Road.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews said at least two acres burned between the two fires, but firefighters were able to contain and extinguish them quickly.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, the San Antonio Police helicopter was called in to search for a possible suspect. Investigators said the fires may be connected and noted this is the fourth fire reported in the same area within the last month.<\/p>\n<p>Later this morning, investigators plan to check with nearby businesses for surveillance video that could help identify whoever is responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CASTLE HILLS, Texas \u2014 Castle Hills firefighters are investigating whether two overnight brush fires were intentionally set. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-429499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429499","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=429499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}