Herndon Road in Burke County is closed between Chappel Road and McCullough Church Road because of an active grass fire, according to the Burke County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What’s Happening:<\/strong> Emergency crews are working to contain a grass fire that forced the road closure. The sheriff’s office posted the notice on social media and asked drivers to avoid the area and use alternate routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s Important:<\/strong> A separate grass fire near the 4300 block of Rosier Road is producing heavy smoke, according to a second post from the sheriff’s office. Drivers near that area should use caution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Rule:<\/strong> Road closures during active fires allow emergency crews to work safely and keep civilian vehicles out of hazardous areas. Grass fires can spread quickly depending on wind and dry conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Herndon Road in Burke County is closed between Chappel Road and McCullough Church Road because of an active grass fire, according to the Burke County Sheriff’s Office. What’s Happening: Emergency crews are working to contain a grass fire that forced the road closure. The sheriff’s office posted the notice on social media and asked drivers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":224330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8462],"tags":[20255,20256],"class_list":["post-241570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire","tag-grass-fire","tag-smoke","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}