{"id":244092,"date":"2026-04-24T01:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244092\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:13:11","slug":"wildfire-burns-more-than-9000-acres-in-florida-everglades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244092\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire burns more than 9,000 acres in Florida Everglades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SARASOTA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; A wildfire burning in the Florida Everglades has scorched more than 9,000 acres and is now 75 percent contained, according to the Florida Forest Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crews in helicopters scooped up water and dumped it on the blaze burning off U.S. 27 in the Everglades. All-terrain vehicles, Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue\u2019s Aviation Unit and the Florida National Guard responded to the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Florida Forest Service believes the wildfire started on U.S. 27 Tuesday. Crews and strong winds pushed it back and west, but persistent dry conditions are making the fight difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/04\/23\/wildfires-across-georgia-florida-destroy-more-than-50-homes-force-evacuations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/04\/23\/wildfires-across-georgia-florida-destroy-more-than-50-homes-force-evacuations\/\">Wildfires across Georgia and Florida destroy more than 50 homes and force evacuations<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe have made some progress,\u201d a crew member said. \u201cThe fire looks much better. There\u2019s not as much burning at the moment. But we\u2019re going to continue to have winds all day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Everglades has been bone dry after prolonged cold snaps over the winter and low rainfall totals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s probably the worst drought we\u2019ve had in probably 15 years,\u201d a crew member said. \u201cAnd, you know, we\u2019ve probably got another six to eight weeks of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials warned residents to be careful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhether you\u2019re cooking on a barbecue grill or driving and parking on the side of the road and idling for a while, that will definitely start a fire,\u201d a crew member said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A wildfire burning in the Florida Everglades has scorched more than 9,000 acres and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14758,107582,28,35099,30,29,107583,107584],"class_list":{"0":"post-244092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-drought-conditions","9":"tag-everglades-wildfire","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-forest-service","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-u-s-27-fire","15":"tag-wildfire-containment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244092","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=244092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}