{"id":230935,"date":"2026-04-14T08:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230935\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:29:15","slug":"wildfire-smoke-blocks-out-sun-in-floridas-collier-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230935\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire Smoke Blocks Out Sun in Florida&#8217;s Collier County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Smoke from a wildfire at Florida\u2019s Picayune Strand State Forest partially blocked out the sun on Monday, April 13,<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Monday evening, the Florida Forestry Service <a href=\"https:\/\/ffs.firesponse.com\/public\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;reported&quot;}\" class=\"link \">reported<\/a> the blaze had rapidly grown to 1,500 acres and was 15 percent contained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters would continue to battle the inferno overnight, the service <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FFS_cafc\/status\/2043873197670465907\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:added;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;added&quot;}\" class=\"link \">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some streets near the fire were evacuated, the Collier County Sheriff\u2019s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/colliersheriff\/posts\/pfbid03rYkFvK2QgPfgjJAvYht9XPiMpwKKrhWqE8FGYv2KR9wB3YPh4gynBCJVQnf77iRl?locale=en_GB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said&quot;}\" class=\"link \">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage filmed by Lance Hendrix showed a large plume of smoke hanging over residential homes in Collier County. Credit: Lance Hendrix via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smoke from a wildfire at Florida\u2019s Picayune Strand State Forest partially blocked out the sun on Monday, April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5926,28,30,29,103430,103429],"class_list":["post-230935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-collier-county","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-lance-hendrix","tag-picayune-strand-state-forest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230935","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=230935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}