{"id":204525,"date":"2026-03-24T21:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204525\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:55:08","slug":"smoke-you-see-is-from-a-florida-mulch-fire-burning-since-early-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204525\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke you see is from a Florida mulch fire burning since early March"},"content":{"rendered":"

Residents may be seeing and smelling smoke in the air in the early mornings and late afternoons.<\/p>\n

A 35-acre mulch fire west of Interstate 95 near Range Line Road in western St. Lucie County that started March 1 still was burning as of March 24, said Florida Forest Service wildfire mitigation specialist David Grubich.<\/p>\n

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Smoke from a mulch fire is seen looking west from Hutchinson Island just south of the nuclear power plant in St. Lucie County on March 24, 2026.<\/p>\n

No structures were threatened, Grubich said, and the fire was surrounded by ponds, a solar panel field and the C-23 canal.<\/p>\n

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Smoke could be smelled and seen from Jensen Beach to Port St. Lucie, he said.<\/p>\n

Laurie K. Blandford<\/a>\u00a0is a\u00a0breaking news reporter\u00a0with TCPalm. Email her at\u00a0laurie.blandford@tcpalm.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: Residents seeing and smelling smoke from mulch fire in early March<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents may be seeing and smelling smoke in the air in the early mornings and late afternoons. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,35099,30,29,13075,93977,93979,93978],"class_list":["post-204525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-forest-service","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-interstate-95","tag-mitigation-specialist","tag-range-line-road","tag-smelling-smoke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}