{"id":743778,"date":"2026-07-05T01:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743778\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T01:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:43:15","slug":"two-acre-brush-fire-sparks-after-bird-flies-into-power-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743778\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-acre brush fire sparks after bird flies into power pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VENETA, Ore. \u2014 A two-acre brush fire broke out in Veneta on Perkins Road around 2 p.m. Thursday afternoon, prompting a response from Lane Fire Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Crews managed to get the fire under control soon after arriving. Fire officials said the incident is a reminder to stay cautious, even with a recent stretch of cooler weather.<\/p>\n<p><p>Two-acre brush fire sparks after bird flies into power pole (SBG)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in fire season. ODF is in regulated use right now, we are actually at moderate fire danger. We got some folks in the area still think they can burn because we got a little shot of rain and that is not true. We are in fire season,\u201d said Dale Borland, Fire Chief for the Lane Fire Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (9)<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire was still under investigation, but it was believed to have started when a bird flew into a power line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VENETA, Ore. \u2014 A two-acre brush fire broke out in Veneta on Perkins Road around 2 p.m. Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-743778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}