{"id":85788,"date":"2026-08-26T09:19:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85788"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:19:53","slug":"evacuations-ordered-as-wind-whipped-ross-fire-in-texas-explodes-to-50000-acres-in-just-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/evacuations-ordered-as-wind-whipped-ross-fire-in-texas-explodes-to-50000-acres-in-just-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuations Ordered As Wind-Whipped Ross Fire In Texas Explodes To 50,000 Acres In Just Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> Associated Press:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/834393aa-3075-4828-aa75-a4b65bda89a0\/ross-fire-texas-hd-bh-26-825_1787662093630_hpMain_4x3.jpeg\" width=\"358\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">A\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/alerts\/Wildfires\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\">wind-whipped grass fire<\/a>\u00a0ignited on Monday near Fort Worth, Texas, rapidly spreading overnight to 50,000 acres and triggering evacuations, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Ross Fire in Palo Pinto County, Texas, which has also shut down a highway, is the latest in a series of wildfires across the West and Northwest, and came just as fire crews in Nevada were making progress in battling a massive fire near Reno that has destroyed or damaged more than 50 homes and prompted 42,000 evacuations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Associated Press: A\u00a0wind-whipped grass fire\u00a0ignited on Monday near Fort Worth, Texas, rapidly spreading overnight to 50,000 acres and triggering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85789,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85788\/revisions\/85789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}