{"id":315513,"date":"2026-06-22T11:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/315513\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:55:27","slug":"air-quality-alert-issued-for-miami-dade-as-brush-fires-continue-to-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/315513\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality alert issued for Miami-Dade as brush fires continue to burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 22, 2026 at 7:30 AM<\/p>\n<p>An air quality alert is in effect for Miami-Dade County Monday as two brush fires that erupted last week continue to burn. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 An air quality alert is in effect for Miami-Dade County Monday as two brush fires that erupted last week continue to burn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A south-east wind direction has helped push the smoke and haze from the brush fires more inland so air quality has improved for much of Broward County, but there is an air quality alert in effect for Miami-Dade until 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fire dubbed \u201cQuarry 2,\u201d east of Krome Avenue, has been the most widespread, burning 19,018 acres so far. It is 97% contained, while the Well Fire, near Northwest 122nd Avenue, has burned 2,749 acres. It is 85% contained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No road closures are currently in effect due to the wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" 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\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 22, 2026 at 7:30 AM An air quality alert is in effect for Miami-Dade County Monday as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-315513","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\/315513","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=315513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}