{"id":268296,"date":"2026-05-12T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268296\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:55:00","slug":"residents-keep-close-eye-on-west-broward-brush-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268296\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents keep close eye on west Broward brush fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A brush fire that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/10\/brush-fire-ignites-in-western-broward-county\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/10\/brush-fire-ignites-in-western-broward-county\/\">ignited<\/a> in western Broward County Sunday has burned more than 11,090 acres and was at 60% containment as of Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/11\/incendio-en-el-oeste-de-broward-crece-a-5600-acres-y-solo-tiene-30-de-contencion\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/11\/incendio-en-el-oeste-de-broward-crece-a-5600-acres-y-solo-tiene-30-de-contencion\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Residents like Audrey Gonzalez, who has lived in the area for 35 years, were on high alert, preparing to evacuate if necessary. <\/p>\n<p>Fight continues against west Broward brush fire <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201c(I\u2019m) very, very concerned,\u201d she said, adding that she\u2019s been \u201ccoming out in the middle of night, just to make sure that it wasn\u2019t coming towards our way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fire could be seen from West Broward High School, though students remained in class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">West Broward resident Roxanne Gill said, \u201cWe could hear it crackling. That\u2019s how bad it was. I had to hose down my house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cEveryone was hosing down all their trailers before the fire department came,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At long last, rain began to fall in the late afternoon, which was a welcomed sight for residents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis is amazing, we have been praying for this because it was very dry and the prediction was like it\u2019s not gonna dry until tonight, so I\u2019m super, super grateful right now,\u201d said Elba Navarro. \u201cI live nearby and honestly I didn\u2019t sleep last night. I was waking up every two hours running to the window to see how close the fire was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As the fire moves deeper into the everglades, the concern for neighbors now is the displaced wildlife showing up at their front doors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cNot just only something happened to them that of course I\u2019m concerned but alligators, coyotes, snakes, they run and they run to our house because we have lakes,\u201d said Navarro. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A brush fire that ignited in western Broward County Sunday has burned more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-268296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","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\/268296","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=268296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}