{"id":314403,"date":"2026-06-20T21:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314403\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T21:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:57:30","slug":"miami-dade-evacuees-return-home-after-wildfires-burn-over-20000-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314403\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade evacuees return home after wildfires burn over 20,000 acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 20, 2026 at 5:28 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies announced on Saturday that evacuees were allowed to return home after wildfires no longer posed a risk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two wildfires between Krome Avenue and the Florida Turnpike had burned more than 20,000 acres and were mostly contained by Saturday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Florida Forest Service <a href=\"https:\/\/ffs.firesponse.com\/public\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ffs.firesponse.com\/public\/\">reported<\/a> the wildfire known as \u201cThe Quarry 2\u2033 had burned 19,003 acres and was 100% contained, and a wildfire known as \u201cWell\u201d had burned 1,525 acres and was 70% contained. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">South Florida was under both a heat advisory and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/weather\/alerts\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/weather\/alerts\/\">Air Quality Alert<\/a> that impacted \u201cunusually sensitive people\u201d who needed to limit outdoor activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MiamiDadeFire\/status\/2068394729654321587\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MiamiDadeFire\/status\/2068394729654321587\">recommended<\/a> limiting outdoor activity when possible, keeping windows and doors closed, and setting the air conditioner to recirculate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related reports<\/p>\n<p>Heat advisory 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=\"Aaron Maybin\" 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\/b1f0fdcc-a947-4d3e-8210-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Aaron Maybin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Aaron came to Local 10 from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked as a weekend morning anchor and reporter at WITI-TV.<\/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 20, 2026 at 5:28 PM MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies announced on Saturday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-314403","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\/314403","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=314403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}