{"id":308344,"date":"2026-06-15T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/308344\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:54:08","slug":"large-wildfire-erupts-in-miami-dade-near-the-florida-turnpike-crews-battling-flames-and-heavy-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/308344\/","title":{"rendered":"Large wildfire erupts in Miami-Dade near the Florida Turnpike; crews battling flames and heavy smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters responded to a large wildfire fire in western Miami-Dade County on Monday afternoon, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out near Northwest 137th Avenue and Northwest 25th Street, sending thick plumes of smoke billowing into the air.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aerial images revealed flames rapidly consuming multiple acres of land, with one section burning perilously close to a group of power lines. The wildfire was quickly upgraded to second-alarm as crews raced to protect nearby properties and other possible exposures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to ground units, air rescue teams were called in to perform water drops in an effort to control the fast-moving flames.<\/p>\n<p>Officials continue to monitor the situation as firefighters work to bring the fire under control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No injuries or damage to structures have been reported at this time.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters responded to a large wildfire fire in western Miami-Dade County on Monday afternoon, according to Miami-Dade Fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29325,123,125,124,1064,17216],"class_list":["post-308344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-brush-fire","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-miami-dade-fire-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308344","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=308344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}