Everglades, Broward County and Wildfire
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Smoke from two brush fires burning in the Everglades are drifting over Fort Lauderdale and the western Broward County suburbs on Wednesday morning.
A wildfire burning in western Broward County sent the smell of smoke and haze into the air early Wednesday. The fire, dubbed the Mile Marker 39 fire, had burned 1600 acres by Tuesday afternoon, according to the Florida Fire Service. It was 0% contained. Another blaze, named the Sawgrass Fire, was 250 acres in size and was also 0% contained.
The two wildfires burning in the Everglades, prompting an air-quality alert for Broward County, have combined and grown tenfold, burning over 19,000 acres by Wednesday afternoon, according to the Florida Forest Service.
(WFLA) — Two fires in the Florida Everglades have merged into ... The blaze combined with the smaller Sawgrass Fire Wednesday and was up to 19,200 acres. The National Weather Service notified Broward County residents that an air quality alert was in ...