As several brush fires continue to burn in Miami-Dade County, roadways that were closed have been reopened on Sunday.<\/p>\n
According to the Florida Department of Transportation, all lanes along State Road 997\/Krome Avenue and Southwest 177th Avenue between U.S. 41\/SR 90 and Tamiami Trail have been reopened.<\/p>\n
All Lanes of the Florida Turnpike between Northwest 41st Street\/Doral Boulevard and U.S.\/SR 25\/Okeechobee Road have also reopened.<\/p>\n
Three wildfires have been burning in Miami-Dade for several days.<\/p>\n
According to officials, three fires remain active.<\/p>\n
The largest, the Quarry Fire, has burned more than 19,000 acres and is now 97% contained.<\/p>\n
The Well Fire has grown to 1,425 acres and is 75% contained, and the Corrections Fire has burned more than 120 acres and has not been contained.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, dry air and windy conditions are increasing the risk of fast- moving grass fires,\u201d said Erika Benitez with the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.
Officials are asking residents to take caution.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease avoid burning any yard debris on windy days,” Benitez said. “Never throw cigarettes out of your vehicle and avoid grilling near dry grassy areas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officials are also warning residents to protect themselves as smoke continues to impact air quality.<\/p>\n
The fires have also forced evacuations.<\/p>\n
But there is some good news tonight.<\/p>\n
The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office posted on X that residents of Jones Fish Camp who were forced to leave can now return home.<\/p>\n
The American Red Cross said it is still providing shelter and support to six people and a cat displaced by the fires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As several brush fires continue to burn in Miami-Dade County, roadways that were closed have been reopened on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-314856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314856","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=314856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}