{"id":432225,"date":"2026-09-10T23:14:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432225\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T23:14:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:14:59","slug":"fire-prompts-i-35-road-closure-evacuation-in-jarrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432225\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire prompts I-35 road closure, evacuation in Jarrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williamson County officials said the fire has been contained and evacuation orders have been lifted. Residents can safely return to the area, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=1388179300165899&amp;id=100069215259798&amp;mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;rdid=Snq8QMl5pKHzN9yA\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An ongoing fire has prompted evacuations and the road closure off Interstate 35. Southbound I-35 from\u00a0C Bud Stockton Loop to County Road\u00a0310 is currently closed due to a fire incident in Jarrell, a city about 40 miles north of Austin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Williamson County Emergency Services <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=1388174536833042&amp;set=a.240276248289549&amp;type=3&amp;mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;rdid=gS4grYrotGpuYF0A&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F1EoUmyWYkg%2F%3Fmibextid%3DwwXIfr\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">issued an evacuation alert<\/a> for Jarrell around 2:30\u00a0p.m. on Thursday, September 10. The evacuation is for a fire incident happening near Alsace Avenue in\u00a0Jarrell.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson County officials told residents in the affected area to evacuate now and follow instructions from emergency personnel. It&#8217;s currently unclear what caused the fire or how much damage it has caused.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Be prepared for potential road closures, traffic delays and reduced visibility due to smoke,&#8221; the\u00a0WilCo alert said. &#8220;Avoid the area if possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. MySA will update this story with more information as it becomes available.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williamson County officials said the fire has been contained and evacuation orders have been lifted. Residents can safely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,820],"class_list":["post-432225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-mysastaff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432225","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=432225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}