{"id":3859,"date":"2026-08-26T09:26:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:26:54","slug":"ross-fire-in-texas-spreads-rapidly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/ross-fire-in-texas-spreads-rapidly\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRoss Fire\u201d in Texas Spreads Rapidly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cRoss Fire\u201d in northern Texas continues to spread rapidly. Fueled by extreme drought and strong winds, the fire has burned an area of approximately 202 square kilometers in just 24 hours, with only 5 percent of the fire contained. In 2026, the number of wildfires across the United States has already exceeded 50,000, breaking the record for the same period over the past decade. Drought conditions have made vegetation in the South and West extremely flammable, keeping firefighting pressures high across the country, while wildfire smoke has also caused widespread air pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cRoss Fire\u201d in northern Texas continues to spread rapidly. Fueled by extreme drought and strong winds, the fire has burned an area of approximately 202 square kilometers in just 24 hours, with only 5 percent of the fire contained. In 2026, the number of wildfires across the United States has already exceeded 50,000, breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"views":15,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3861,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions\/3861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}