{"id":61935,"date":"2026-01-29T23:25:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=61935"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:25:43","slug":"highlands-county-fire-rescue-has-units-from-stations-39-and-41-and-battalion-2-battling-a-30-acre-brush-fire-at-the-next-gen-solar-farm-in-lake-placid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/01\/29\/highlands-county-fire-rescue-has-units-from-stations-39-and-41-and-battalion-2-battling-a-30-acre-brush-fire-at-the-next-gen-solar-farm-in-lake-placid\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlands County Fire Rescue has units from stations 39 and 41 and Battalion 2 battling a 30-acre brush fire at the Next Gen solar farm in Lake Placid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"654a3c\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #654a3c;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/623300283_1177598171204229_4003334176459683004_n-1024x768.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61939 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/623300283_1177598171204229_4003334176459683004_n-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/623300283_1177598171204229_4003334176459683004_n-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/623300283_1177598171204229_4003334176459683004_n-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/623300283_1177598171204229_4003334176459683004_n-1536x1152.webp 1536w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/623300283_1177598171204229_4003334176459683004_n.webp 2048w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UPDATE. 1\/29: Forestry remains on scene. The solar farm is under construction, and its equipment is not operational. The solar panels were not on fire. It was the grass underneath the panels, and that portion of the fire is out, while a small section in an empty field is still burning.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"54463b\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #54463b;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/623373879_1177596114537768_1953747471370788440_n-1024x768.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61938 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/623373879_1177596114537768_1953747471370788440_n-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/623373879_1177596114537768_1953747471370788440_n-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/623373879_1177596114537768_1953747471370788440_n-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/623373879_1177596114537768_1953747471370788440_n.webp 1440w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ORIGINAL POST 1\/28:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of 10:10 p.m., Highlands County Fire Rescue has units from stations 39 and 41 and Battalion 2 battling a 30-acre brush fire at the Next Gen solar farm in Lake Placid. Forestry is en route.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-dominant-color=\"776e5b\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #776e5b;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"433\" height=\"398\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-29T232234.174.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61937 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-29T232234.174.webp 433w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-29T232234.174-300x276.webp 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE. 1\/29: Forestry remains on scene. The solar farm is under construction, and its equipment is not operational. The solar panels were not on fire. It was the grass underneath&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDFcLzYyMzM3Mzg3OV8xMTc3NTk2MTE0NTM3NzY4XzE5NTM3NDc0NzEzNzA3ODg0NDBfbi53ZWJwP2ZpdD0xMDI0JTJDNzY4JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiSGlnaGxhbmRzIENvdW50eSBGaXJlIFJlc2N1ZSBoYXMgdW5pdHMgZnJvbSBzdGF0aW9ucyAzOSBhbmQgNDEgYW5kIEJhdHRhbGlvbiAyIGJhdHRsaW5nIGEgMzAtYWNyZSBicnVzaCBmaXJlIGF0IHRoZSBOZXh0IEdlbiBzb2xhciBmYXJtIGluIExha2UgUGxhY2lkIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.voTzAA_uPBq4hfybqIkrmzvR3XD5Hhn2T6M78N2KHsQMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":61938,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/623373879_1177596114537768_1953747471370788440_n.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[13421],"class_list":["post-61935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-highlands-county-fire-rescue-has-units-from-stations-39-and-41-and-battalion-2-battling-a-30-acre-brush-fire-at-the-next-gen-solar-farm-in-lake-placid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61935","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61940,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61935\/revisions\/61940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}