{"id":47204,"date":"2024-07-01T11:41:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T15:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=47204"},"modified":"2024-07-01T11:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T15:41:55","slug":"burn-ban-in-polk-county-repealed-july-1-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/07\/01\/burn-ban-in-polk-county-repealed-july-1-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn Ban in Polk County Repealed July 1, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to an increase in rain, Polk County is repealing the active burn ban today,&nbsp;July 1.&nbsp;The Polk County&nbsp;Fire&nbsp;Chief declared a burn ban&nbsp;throughout Polk County&nbsp;on&nbsp;May 28,&nbsp;due to dangerous fire conditions throughout the county.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/QDKGV5XREBDSLBTRJAJWC7IUOY.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47205\" style=\"width:484px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/QDKGV5XREBDSLBTRJAJWC7IUOY.avif 800w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/QDKGV5XREBDSLBTRJAJWC7IUOY-300x169.avif 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/QDKGV5XREBDSLBTRJAJWC7IUOY-768x432.avif 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Less than\u00a010 percent\u00a0of Polk County is averaging over 500 on the\u00a0Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) and the average KBDI across Polk County is 312. The KBDI index is used as an indicator to determine the likelihood and severity of brush fires.\u00a0The scale begins at zero, which is no danger, and rises to 800, which is extreme danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polk County could reinstate a burn ban if conditions get dry once again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The repeal means residents in all unincorporated Polk and municipalities who participated in the burn ban can now burn yard debris, campfires,\u00a0bonfires,\u00a0and construction debris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fire officials warn residents celebrating Independence Day to be mindful and use caution when using fireworks, ensuring they are a safe distance from structures and people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to an increase in rain, Polk County is repealing the active burn ban today,&nbsp;July 1.&nbsp;The Polk County&nbsp;Fire&nbsp;Chief declared a burn ban&nbsp;throughout Polk County&nbsp;on&nbsp;May 28,&nbsp;due to dangerous fire conditions throughout&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"14","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[7121,8973],"class_list":["post-47204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-2","tag-burn-ban-in-polk-county-repealed-july-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47206,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47204\/revisions\/47206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}