Florida Everglades Wildfire Gets Bigger…
Florida Everglades caught fire from a lightning strike and it is just getting bigger and bigger.
In less than a day more than 15,000 acres has been burned and it just keeps stretching.
Lightning sparked the brush fire in western Broward County Sunday at 6:30 p.m. and flames had consumed 15,500 acres by 11:50 a.m. on Monday, the Florida Forest Service said, according to NBC 2.
It has just been so dry here in Florida and it has not rained. “It’s going to keep burning until we get rain,” Scott Peterich, wildlife mitigation specialist with the Florida Forest Service’s Everglades District, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. This is scary because California goes through this often and now Florida. Hopefully the rain will come soon. It seems weird that Florida hasn’t had much rain in the past week, very unlike Summer in Florida. My heart goes out to all of the wildlife living in the Florida Everglades…
A massive brush fire is burning in the Florida Everglades right now 🔥🔥🔥
— NBC2 (WBBH-TV) (@NBC2) June 24, 2019
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