{"id":322933,"date":"2026-06-29T00:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322933\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T00:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:56:19","slug":"100-acre-wildfire-burning-near-sawgrass-expressway-in-west-broward-county-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322933\/","title":{"rendered":"100-acre wildfire burning near Sawgrass Expressway in west Broward County, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters are responding to a wildfire burning in the Everglades west of Tamarac that has grown to about 100 acres and remains uncontained, according to the Florida Forest Service.<\/p>\n<p>As of 5:30 p.m. Sunday, the wildfire was 0% contained, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ffs.firesponse.com\/public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida Forest Service reported<\/a>. The fire is burning on the Everglades side of the Sawgrass Expressway near Commercial Boulevard in west Broward County.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cbs-news-atlanta-logo-53.png#.png\" alt=\"cbs-news-atlanta-logo-53.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Wildfire west of Tamarac grows to 100 acres, still uncontained.<\/p>\n<p>                Alyssa Dzikowski\/ CBS Miami Digital Team<\/p>\n<p>Smoke from the fire could be seen rising over the Sawgrass Expressway Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the growing fire, officials have not announced any road closures or air quality alerts as of Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Forest Service has classified the incident as an active wildfire in Broward County&#8217;s Everglades field unit.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Miami will continue to update this story as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are responding to a wildfire burning in the Everglades west of Tamarac that has grown to about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[506,123,125,124,807,69605],"class_list":["post-322933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-broward-county","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-south-florida","tag-wildfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322933","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=322933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}