{"id":68902,"date":"2024-07-05T12:04:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T16:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ontheridgemagazine.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/several-dozen-crews-battling-fires-that-have-burned-over-several-hundred-acres-in-lake-wales\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:09:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T16:09:25","slug":"several-dozen-crews-battling-fires-that-have-burned-over-several-hundred-acres-in-lake-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterhavendaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/several-dozen-crews-battling-fires-that-have-burned-over-several-hundred-acres-in-lake-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Dozen Crews Battling Fires that Have Burned Over Several Hundred Acres in Lake Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Several dozen crews are battling brush fires that have spread in Lake Wales over the course of several hours. The initial fire call came in earlier today, June 5, at 3:50 pm for a vegetation fire at HWY 630 &amp; Deland Ave in Lake Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fires have been burning in the River Ranch area\/Southeast Polk and they have burned over several hundred acres. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 10:15 pm (June 5), crews are still fighting the fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Florida Forest Service has taken the lead with these brush fires and PCFR is also on scene aiding\/working to protect local homes around the fire areas (along with other departments).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this evening Indian Lake Estates Golf &amp; Country Club put out a notice that they will be leaving Gate arms open for the evening so that emergency vehicles can enter and exit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 9:03 pm, they also updated that the fire has jumped HWY 630 on the southwest corner near the claypots off of Orange Ave and the Woodlands area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The odor from the fires has spread across much of Polk County. Local Fire Departments have been getting numerous phone calls of people reporting smoke\/odors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a developing story and we will be adding new details about the fire(s) as they come in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/winterhavendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0261.jpeg?w=696&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72000\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/winterhavendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0262.jpeg?w=696&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72001\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/winterhavendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0263.jpeg?w=696&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72002\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several dozen crews are battling brush fires that have spread in Lake Wales over the course of several hours. The initial fire call came in earlier today, June 5, at 3:50 pm for a vegetation fire at HWY 630 &amp; Deland Ave in Lake Wales. The fires have been burning in the River Ranch area\/Southeast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fast-factual-free"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.winterhavendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WinterHavenDaily-Trans-1.png?fit=400%2C240&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterhavendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterhavendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterhavendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterhavendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterhavendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterhavendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterhavendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterhavendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterhavendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterhavendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}