Fla. Fires Blacken 50,000 Acres
Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —
Fires enveloped 50,000 acres of south Florida today as Gov. Robert Graham declared a state of emergency and forestry experts predicted that weather would make one of three major blazes uncontrollable.
Since the beginning of the month about 1,000 fires have burned thousands of acres of grass, palmettos and scrub pine. The largest fire was burning over about 46,000 acres of uninhabited Florida Everglades grasslands in northwest Broward County on the state’s southeast coast.
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