The majority of brushy wildfires that burst into flames across Southwest Florida since last weekend have either been contained or close to it.<\/p>\n
In Sarasota County as of Thursday morning, an 850-acre fire in the Orange Hammock Ranch area, a 248-acre fire and a three-acre fire, both in the Myakka State Forest, and a 100-acre fire on the Walton Ranch were all at 95 percent contained.<\/p>\n
Also at 90 to 95 percent contained were three wildfires in Charlotte County and an 80-acre brush fire in DeSoto County.<\/p>\n
Still being battled and at 50 percent contained was an 1,100-acre blaze called the Platt Trap fire in Glades County just north of Moore Haven.<\/p>\n
Almost a dozen other fires across the region including a 20-acre fire along Alico Road in Lee County were considered 100 percent contained.<\/p>\n
This story was produced by Suncoast Searchlight, a nonprofit newsroom of the Community News Collaborative serving Sarasota, Manatee, and DeSoto counties;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The majority of brushy wildfires that burst into flames across Southwest Florida since last weekend have either been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-319335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319335","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=319335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}