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A wildfire is burning in the southern part of Polk County and has closed portions of Highway 640 and 555.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Polk County Fire Rescue said a 190-acre wildfire is burning south of the Bartow area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PCFR said no injuries have been reported and no structures are threatened. A gooseneck trailer has burned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fire is 0 percent contained as of 5:40 p.m., according to the Florida Forest Service wildfire map<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A wildfire is burning in the southern part of Polk County and has closed portions of Highway 640 and 555. Polk County Fire Rescue said a 190-acre wildfire is burning… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62405,"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":"12","_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDJcL2ltYWdlcy01LndlYnA_Zml0PTMwMCUyQzE2OCZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IjE5MC1hY3JlIHdpbGRmaXJlIGJ1cm5pbmcgaW4gc291dGhlcm4gUG9sayBDb3VudHksIHBvcnRpb25zIG9mIEhpZ2h3YXkgNjQwIGFuZCA1NTUgc2h1dCBkb3duIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.P_5KaRWwH3cnekTweW9BJ6rqiCh5y4RGu6K4PA2atYIMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":62405,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/images-5.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[13585,13586],"class_list":["post-62404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-190-acre-wildfire-burning-in-southern-polk-county","tag-portions-of-highway-640-and-555-shut-down"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62404","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=62404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62410,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62404\/revisions\/62410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}