Everglades, wildfires and South Florida
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The Max Road fire in Florida’s Everglades has spread to more than 11,000 acres and is at 50% containment late Monday.
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Fire crews are monitoring a growing Everglades wildfire near U.S. 27 and Pines Boulevard as smoke drifts toward the Holly Lake community in Pembroke Pines.
As the West Broward wildfire burns over 11,000 acres, CBS News Miami interviews Everglades science chief Dr. Steve Davis. He explains how severe drought and "muck fires" threaten to permanently change South Florida’s natural water-absorbing landscape,
Police in Florida were warning drivers not to stop and look at an Everglades fire that, by Monday, May 11, had scorched almost 5,000 acres west of US 27 and Pines Boulevard in western Broward County.
On May 11, 1996, 110 people lost their lives when ValuJet Flight 592 crashed into the Florida Everglades shortly after departing from Miami International Airport.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday the Everglades immigration detention center has served its purpose, responding to reports that the temporary facility may close. The New York Times reported Thursday morning that “Florida is in talks with the Trump administration” to shut down the facility dubbed by DeSantis’ administration as “Alligator Alcatraz,
Massive smoke clouds were seen towering over the Everglades inferno which was raging near Miami, Florida, on Sunday, May 10. Stephanie Corcoran told Storyful she recorded this footage of the wildfire