{"id":268325,"date":"2026-05-12T18:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268325\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:19:10","slug":"drone-footage-captures-aerial-view-of-florida-everglades-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268325\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Footage Captures Aerial View of Florida Everglades Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials continued the fight against <a data-ylk=\"slk:a pair;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FLForestService\/status\/2053865794073694481\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a pair<\/a> of <a data-ylk=\"slk:fires;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/newswire.storyful.com\/collections\/north-america-wildfires-2025_7023\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">fires<\/a> burning in South Florida amid <a data-ylk=\"slk:extreme drought;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?fips_12011\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">extreme drought<\/a> on Monday, May 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Drone footage captured by Robert Ziady shows the state of the fire in Broward County on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI headed out to Everglades Holiday Park today to capture some aerial footage of the smoke and fire conditions from above,\u201d Ziady wrote on Facebook. \u201cShortly after, they issued a mandatory evacuation for the park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As of Tuesday morning, the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Max Road Fire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/app.watchduty.org\/i\/97358\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Max Road Fire<\/a> was an estimated 11,339 acres in size with 70 percent containment, according to the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Florida Forest Service;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/ffs.firesponse.com\/public\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Forest Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service, meanwhile, <a data-ylk=\"slk:forecast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSMiami\/status\/2054109320824934837\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">forecast<\/a> \u201cheavy rain\u201d in parts of South Florida on Tuesday, which was expected to help firefighting efforts. Credit: Robert Ziady via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials continued the fight against a pair of fires burning in South Florida amid extreme drought on Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[506,115250,115248,3620,1292,28,35099,30,29,115249,807],"class_list":["post-268325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-broward-county","tag-drone-footage","tag-everglades-holiday-park","tag-extreme-drought","tag-facebook","tag-florida","tag-florida-forest-service","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-robert-ziady","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268325","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=268325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}