After wildfires burned more than 26,000 acres of land in the Everglades west of Sunrise and west of Boca Raton, the fires have been contained, a Florida Forest Service spokesman said.
Three separate fires started from lightning strikes on Wednesday afternoon and spread within the Everglades in Broward and Palm Beach, creating billowing smoke in the western portions of the counties.
Heavy rainfall on Saturday helped douse the flames, Florida Forest Service spokesman David Rosenbaum said.
“The rain had a tremendous effect on putting the fire out where you could get that containment level up,” Rosebaum said.
“There’s no smoke impact and no reports of any smoke or ash.”
In Palm Beach County, over 17,600 acres were burned in two separate fires, named L-39 and 2 Alpha. In Broward, the 2 Bravo fire burned over 9,150 acres.
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