JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department is urging homeowners to take precautionary actions to protect their homes from catching on fire during the dry season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re seeing a lot of accidental and we\u2019re seeing some that are preventable in terms of these fires,\u201d JFRD District Chief of Training Aaron Bebernitz said.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n From January 1 through January 31, JFRD said its firefighters responded to 2,089 fire related calls.<\/p>\n Of those, 38 were brush fires. 29 were wood fires, and four were grass fires. <\/p>\n The number of fires is causing JFRD to repurpose their resources within their department. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cThis heightened response, all of our brush trucks are fully staffed right now,\u201d Bebernitz said. <\/p>\n Bebernitz said homeowners have ways to protect their homes from catching on fire in these dry conditions. <\/p>\n \u201cThe pine needles, the pine cones, leaves, branches accumulate on top of roofs. We want to remind everybody to clean all of that off,\u201d Bebernitz said. <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Bebernitz also stressed the importance of keeping shrubbery maintained<\/p>\n \u201cClean out all the weeds, clean out anything that could heighten or exponentially cause a fire to be worse around your area,\u201d Bebernitz said.<\/p>\n In the event that your home does catch on fire, Bebernitz said do not be a hero and call 911 immediately.<\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department is urging homeowners to take precautionary actions to protect…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":578870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[251187,12189,5229,15621,251189,251188,10082,6279,251186,251184,3188,723,11561,7310,251183,12179,425,251185,251190,146528,68315,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-578869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-aaron_biebernitz","tag-action_news","tag-america","tag-ben","tag-bieber","tag-biebernitz","tag-chief","tag-district","tag-district_chief","tag-fire_station_50","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacques_mastifoglio","tag-jfrd","tag-local","tag-madison_fire_rescue","tag-madison_poglio","tag-normandy_boulevard","tag-publix","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116044124926057036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}