Isolated Fires Burn in Everglades Park
A fire covering 100,000 acres of Everglades National Park continued to burn Sunday in isolated spots, as crews manned the perimeters of the blaze to prevent further spreading.
The fire in the 1.5-million-acre park was contained Friday but firefighters continue to battle hot spots. Isolated fires still posed a threat to a number of the park’s stands of tropical hardwood trees, in areas known as hammocks.
“Our current concern is environmental damage from that,” said Sue Husari, a fire management official at the park. “We have a team assesssing that today. . . . They (the hammocks) take many, many years to grow and there is a potential for foreign plant invasion in those areas after they burn.”
Meanwhile, firefighters worked to reinforce containment lines around an 11,000-acre fire northwest of Everglades National Park in Big Cypress National Preserve.
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