{"id":343373,"date":"2026-07-17T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343373\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:40:08","slug":"brush-fire-erupts-off-i-75-in-west-broward-fire-scorches-3600-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343373\/","title":{"rendered":"Brush fire erupts off I-75 in West Broward; fire scorches 3,600 acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 17, 2026 at 6:57 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 17, 2026 at 7:15 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LYOASA32PJFMXPUPZZ4EMLR7ZI.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BROWARD COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A brush fire is burning Friday off Interstate 75 in West Broward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fire, which erupted Thursday night, is burning near Mile Marker 40.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It has burned 3,600 acres so far and is 0% contained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Local 10 meteorologist John Gerard, southerly winds should keep most of the smoke away from the western suburbs Friday, but a wind shift to the southwest could allow the smoke to spread more into the western suburbs on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No other details were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Watch Local 10 News or refresh this page for updates.<\/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\/07\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 17, 2026 at 6:57 AM Updated:\u00a0July 17, 2026 at 7:15 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-343373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343373","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=343373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}