Three larger blazes were burning in Florida, with two triggering evacuations of hundreds of homes.
A wildfire that started Monday had burned more than 2,000 acres in Florida's Panhandle and triggered evacuations of more than a thousand state residents by Thursday morning as two other wildfires raged in the state.
Vehicles from the Miami Beach Fire Department drive through Miami's South Beach neighborhood on April 17. A few weeks later, firefighters in Florida's Santa Rosa and Walton counties were battling wildfires that threatened thousands of residents' homes."Deteriorating weather conditions, changes in the wind, a strong north wind and extremely low humidity are allowing this fire to grow," the FFS's Joe Zwierzchowski said during a news conference Wednesday evening.
"Swamp fires such as this are notoriously difficult to fight as dry vegetation on the surface allows the fire to spread rapidly," the FFS said on its second day fighting the blaze, adding that it expected firefighting efforts to continue for several days. Firefighters were making progress containing a third fire Thursday morning in Escambia County. The blaze has burned approximately 300 acres and was 20 percent contained, Escambia County officials said Thursday morning.
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