{"id":310166,"date":"2026-06-17T06:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310166\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T06:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:01:24","slug":"wildfire-burns-600-acres-in-western-miami-dade-affects-air-quality-in-broward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310166\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire burns 600 acres in western Miami-Dade, affects air quality in Broward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 16, 2026 at 11:07 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0June 16, 2026 at 12:26 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A wildfire was active on Tuesday after burning 600 acres in western Miami-Dade County,<a href=\"https:\/\/ffs.firesponse.com\/public\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ffs.firesponse.com\/public\/\"> according<\/a> to the Florida Forest Service. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/16\/incendio-forestal-consume-600-acres-en-el-oeste-de-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/16\/incendio-forestal-consume-600-acres-en-el-oeste-de-miami-dade\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fire, which started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/15\/crews-battle-brush-fire-in-west-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/15\/crews-battle-brush-fire-in-west-miami-dade\/\">on Monday afternoon<\/a>, was 45% contained as the Florida Forest Service\u2019s Everglades unit continued working. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel also assisted. There was an evacuation at a commercial property near the Metro West Detention Center at 13850 NW 41st St. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An air-quality alert was in effect in areas of Miami-Dade and Broward counties. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Air-quality alert <\/p>\n<p>Air quality alert in effect in Miami-Dade and Broward  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jolena Esperto\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/4c492fdc-471c-4ae6-a004-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jolena Esperto<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jolena Esperto joined the Local 10 News team in July of 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Julie Durda\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/d49a883b-13e2-4ee9-8788-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Julie Durda<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">A native of Sacramento, California, Julie Durda joined Local 10 with extensive knowledge and experience in meteorology from various parts of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 16, 2026 at 11:07 AM Updated:\u00a0June 16, 2026 at 12:26 PM MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A wildfire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-310166","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\/310166","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=310166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}