{"id":240705,"date":"2026-04-21T18:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240705\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:34:08","slug":"large-brush-fire-burns-in-the-everglades-in-western-broward-county-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240705\/","title":{"rendered":"Large brush fire burns in the Everglades in western Broward County \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large brush fire was burning in the Florida Everglades in western Broward County on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fire rescue crews responded to the fire was off U.S. 27 west of Pembroke Pines.<\/p>\n<p>Aerial footage from Chopper 6 showed thick smoke rising into the air from the fire as it burned near the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/042126-brush-fire-western-broward.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"A large brush fire was burning in the Florida Everglades in western Broward County on Tuesday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tNBC6NBC6<\/p>\n<p>A large brush fire was burning in the Florida Everglades in western Broward County on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A helicopter could be seen dumping water onto portions of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida Forest Service, the fire was burning around 11 acres and was 0% contained as of 1:50 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>No other details were immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>Check back with NBC6 for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large brush fire was burning in the Florida Everglades in western Broward County on Tuesday. Fire rescue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,249,251,250],"class_list":["post-240705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240705","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=240705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}