{"id":273210,"date":"2026-05-16T06:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273210\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T06:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:26:26","slug":"max-road-wildfire-in-west-broward-100-contained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273210\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Road wildfire in west Broward 100% contained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wildfire that burned more than 11,000 acres over four days in the Everglades in western Broward County has been extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>The Max Road fire, which began Sunday in the Everglades southwest of Miramar and Pembroke Pines, was 100% contained by Wednesday afternoon. The fire covered a total of 11,446 acres, Florida Forest Service Everglades District said.<\/p>\n<p>A second Everglades fire continues to burn in Miami-Dade County, <a href=\"https:\/\/ffs.firesponse.com\/public\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 172nd Avenue fire<\/a> near Florida City. It is 80% contained and has covered a total of 315 acres, according to a Florida Forest Service map.<\/p>\n<p>South Florida is expected to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/05\/14\/south-florida-wildfire-threat-may-loom-for-months-despite-start-of-wet-season\/?lctg=D4A134D4F429046D2419241312&amp;utm_email=D4A134D4F429046D2419241312&amp;active=no&amp;utm_source=listrak&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.sun-sentinel.com%2f2026%2f05%2f14%2fsouth-florida-wildfire-threat-may-loom-for-months-despite-start-of-wet-season%2f&amp;utm_campaign=trib-sun_sentinel-breaking_news-nl&amp;utm_content=alert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cabove-normal\u201d levels<\/a> of significant wildland fire potential through August, according to a report newly released by the National Interagency Fire Center.<\/p>\n<p>Sun Sentinel staff writer Megan Vaz contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildfire that burned more than 11,000 acres over four days in the Everglades in western Broward County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,112,1563,28,249,251,250,114,115,109],"class_list":["post-273210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-environment","tag-florida","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273210","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=273210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}