Brush Fire Grows; Krome Still Closed
A raging brush fire continues to burn in West Miami-Dade. It has charred more than 50,000 acres and a stretch of Krome Avenue from the Tamiami Trail to Okeechobee Road remains closed.
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A raging brush fire continues to burn in West Miami-Dade. It has charred more than 50,000 acres and a stretch of Krome Avenue from the Tamiami Trail to Okeechobee Road remains closed.
Looking like a fiery snake from above, a raging brush fire in west Miami-Dade has burned more than 30,200 acres, and the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue recommended that the residents of the area evacuate due to the fire impacting their homes.
Miami-Dade and state forestry fire crews plan to throw everything they've got at a roaring brush fire in the western part of the county which has burned through 28,000 acres in the last four days.
An eleven mile stretch of Krome Avenue, from SW 8th Street to U.S. 27, remains closed due to a smoky brush fire which has now burned at least 1,800 acres in western Miami-Dade.
A smoky brush fire burning in the tinder dry area west of Doral has grown to 650 acres as it continues to push to the northwest.
Drivers on the Florida Turnpike in the Doral area were probably a bit surprised to see a large plume of thick gray smoke out to the west.
Drivers in Miami-Dade County could see the smoke for miles as a brush fire ignited behind the Krome Detention Center Sunday afternoon.
South Floridians are breathing a lot easier Friday now that the smoke and haze from a huge Everglades brush fire is nearly contained.
After a day's respite, South Florida once again woke up to smoky, hazy conditions thanks to a wildfire burning in the Big Cypress National Preserve in Collier County.
While the smell of smoke wasn't lingering over eastern South Florida on Wednesday morning, a raging wildfire to its west continues to burn.
Much of South Florida woke to another smoky, hazy morning thanks to a wildfire burning in the Big Cypress National Preserve in Collier County.
The smell of smoke is in the air in southwest Broward and portions of Miami-Dade County.
The fire that engulfed a chunk of land off the Sawgrass Expressway in Coral Springs is out.
Miami-Dade firefighters have contained about 95% of a brush fire that sparked early this morning in a wooded area along Tamiami Trail in western Miami-Dade County.
Central Florida firefighters are still battling a large wildfire that so far has burned 16,000 acres.
Miami-Dade firefighters are trying to get a handle on a smoky brush fire on the 18 mile stretch of U.S. 1.
South Florida's dry winter conditions have prompted wildlife rangers to ask all campers and people who spend time in the Everglades to take care with their cigarette butts and camp fires.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews spent their New Year's Eve battling a large brush fire that sparked late Friday night in Southwest Miami-Dade.
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