{"id":430223,"date":"2026-09-09T03:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/430223\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:02:09","slug":"kurk-fire-grows-to-1500-acres-in-san-saba-county-5-contained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/430223\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurk Fire grows to 1,500 acres in San Saba County, 5% contained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN SABA COUNTY, Texas \u2014 Crews are battling a large wildfire in San Saba County that has grown to an estimated 1,500 acres on Tuesday, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/tfswildfires.com\/public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas A&amp;M Forest Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said in an update around 8:20 p.m. Tuesday that the Kurk Fire was 5% contained and remained active along its flanks.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas A&amp;M Forest Service was called to assist with the fire around 6 p.m., when it was estimated at 500 acres and 0% contained.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/texas-comptroller-seeks-more-school-voucher-funding-as-skeptics-question-who-benefits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO| Texas Comptroller seeks more school voucher funding as skeptics question who benefits<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By about 6:30 p.m., crews had increased containment to 5%. Aviation resources made several drops that officials said helped slow the fire&#8217;s spread, while dozer crews made slow progress because of the terrain.<\/p>\n<p>Less than two hours later, the Forest Service estimated the fire had grown to 1,500 acres. Despite the increase in acreage, officials said its forward progression had been stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not provided information about any evacuations, injuries, or structures threatened.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN SABA COUNTY, Texas \u2014 Crews are battling a large wildfire in San Saba County that has grown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-430223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430223","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=430223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}