{"id":250166,"date":"2026-04-28T20:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250166\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:54:12","slug":"wildfire-burns-2500-acres-in-florida-everglades-feds-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250166\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire burns 2,500 acres in Florida Everglades, feds say"},"content":{"rendered":"

A wildfire that sparked on Monday evening in Everglades National Park has rapidly grown to about 2,500 acres, authorities say. Fire crews are battling the blaze, which has already closed parts of the Everglades.<\/p>\n

The wildfire began in the northeastern corner of the national park, with U.S. Wildland Fire Services crews working the fire on the ground and from the air, the agency said on Tuesday. The blaze is south of Highway 41 (Tamiami Trail) and east of Shark Valley.<\/p>\n

\"A A plane drops fire retardant on a large wildfire on the south side of Tamiami Trail on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. Pedro Portal pportal@miamiherald.com \"Federal Federal and Miami-Dade County firefighters battled a large wildfire that has burned about 2,500 acres of the Florida Everglades. David Goodhue dgoodhue@miamiherald.com <\/p>\n

Fire Services said it has \u201cincreased significantly\u201d as it burns through sawgrass and dry weather aids its spread. The agency is working with the assistance of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n

Everglades National Park closed the area between the L-67 Canal on the west and the L-31 Canal on the east from U.S. Route 41 south to several miles north of Mahogany Hammock. It includes all parking lots, facilities and navigable waterways within those areas.<\/p>\n

Businesses near the fire \u2014 Coopertown Airboats, Everglades Safari Park and Gator Park \u2014 have also closed.<\/p>\n

Four friends from Turin, Italy, walked up to the kiosk to book an airboat tour at Everglades Safari Park at mile marker 27, but were greeted with a handwritten sign saying it was closed for the day due to the fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw it from the road, so we knew it was bad,\u201d Andreas Scandurra said.<\/p>\n

He, Georgia Feorenza, Martina Cennello and Luca Daniel were visiting Miami, Key West, Tampa and Orlando. They were looking forward to seeing the Everglades by airboat.<\/p>\n

\"Federal Federal and Miami-Dade County firefighters battled a large wildfire that has burned about 2,500 acres of the Florida Everglades. David Goodhue dgoodhue@miamiherald.com <\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe we\u2019ll try to schedule it again for the last day,\u201d Cennello said.<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service is monitoring possible smoky conditions, but as of Tuesday afternoon, the fire is not affecting road visibility. The evening\u2019s forecast will mention the possibility of more fog and smoke in west Miami-Dade County near the fire, but not enough yet to trigger a safety alert, meteorologists said.<\/p>\n

\"Georgia Georgia Feorenza, Martina Cennello and Luca Daniel discuss their plans at Everglades Safari Park on Tamiami Trail in west Miami-Dade County after seeing a sign that airboat rides had been canceled due to a wildfire on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. David Goodhue dgoodhue@miamiherald.com \"Smoke Smoke rises from a large wildfire on the south side of Tamiami Trail on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. Pedro Portal pportal@miamiherald.com \"Smoke Smoke rises from a large wildfire on the south side of Tamiami Trail on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. Pedro Portal pportal@miamiherald.com \"A A water-tanker helicopter heads out to the south side of Tamiami Trail (U.S. 41) in the Everglades on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, to drop its load on flames burning thousands of acres of brush. Pedro Portal pportal@miamiherald.com \"Federal Federal and Miami-Dade County firefighters battled a large wildfire that has burned about 2,500 acres of the Florida Everglades. David Goodhue dgoodhue@miamiherald.com <\/p>\n

This story was originally published April 28, 2026 at 2:37 PM.<\/p>\n


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Miami Herald Cops and Breaking News Reporter Devoun Cetoute covers a plethora of Florida topics, from breaking news to crime patterns. He was on the breaking news team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2022. He\u2019s a graduate of the University of Florida, born and raised in Miami-Dade. Theme parks, movies and cars are on his mind in and out of the office.\n <\/p>\n


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Miami Herald<\/p>\n

David Goodhue covers the Florida Keys and South Florida for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald. Before joining the Herald, he covered Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildfire that sparked on Monday evening in Everglades National Park has rapidly grown to about 2,500 acres,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-250166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250166","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=250166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}